Women and Sustainable Development – Reconnecting with Grassroots Movements

60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, 14 to 24 March 2016

Panel discussion hosted by the Socialist International Women (SIW), PES Women, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and Fondation Jean-Jaurès (FJJ)

Date: Tuesday 15 March 2016

Place: 2nd Floor, Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN), 777 1st Avenue, East 44th Street, NY 10017, New York

Time: 08.30hrs – 10.00hrs

Interpretation: Consecutive interpretation from French to English

SPEAKERS:

• Ouafa Hajji, President of the Socialist International Women (SIW), Morocco

• Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women, Hungary

• Kane Kadidia Toure, Executive Secretary, National Bureau of the Women’s Union of the Assembly for Mali (RPM), Mali

• Ghislaine Toutain, Advisor to the President, Fondation Jean-Jaurès (FJJ)

• Monique Halpern, Representing the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and member of the Transatlantic Gender Dialogue Network

• Pia Locatelli, SIW Honorary President and Member of Parliament, Italy