The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 15 to 26 March 2021. In light of the evolving COVID-19 situation, and taking into account the latest guidance from the United Nations Secretary-General and the World Health Organization (WHO), CSW65 will take place in a hybrid format with mostly virtual meetings. …
Shaping the Themes and Format of WSIS Forum 2021. WSIS Forum 2021 will be held from 17-21 May 2021, the Agenda and Programme of the Forum will be built on the basis of the submissions received during the Open Consultation Process (OCP). The Open Consultation process aims at ensuring a participatory and inclusive spirit of…
Virtual Activism participated in the civil society consultations on the the gendered dimensions of violent extremism and counterterrorism responses , The Outcome Report has been published at https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/11/gendered-dimensions-of-violent-extremism-and-counterterrorism-responses
The theme of the International Women’s Day in 2021 is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”, and it celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme is “also aligned with the priority theme…
In lieu of the panel that Virtual Activism was invited to speak at by the Center for Social Research, we had an online discussion on Global Policy and Online Harassment of Women, as a Twitter chat, that started at 8.30 am on March 16th. The handle was @CSR_India Video prepared for the event:
All UN parallel events have been cancelled on account of the covid19 outbreak. The CSW64 advisory: 2 March, New York— Following the UN Secretary-General’s recommendation to Member States to amend the format of the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in light of the current concerns regarding coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an…
The Secretary General of the UN has decided to cancel all parallel and side events of the 64th session of the Women’s Commission that was due to take place March 9th-March 22, 2020. This is based on the covid19 outbreak which has hit multiple US states, as well as 60 other countries to-date. The following…
MIT’s Technology Review issued its annual technology trends for 2020. The 10 trends it is foreseeing are: Unhackable internet Hyper-personalized medicine Digital money Anti-aging drugs AI-discovered molecules Satellite mega-constellations Quantum supremacy Tiny AI Differential privacy Climate change attribution Meanwhile Forbes provideed its own list of trends: AI-as-a-service 5G data networks Autonomous Driving Personalized and predictive…
