PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11 February, 2020
Regional Planning Meeting – CSW and Beijing +25 & CIWiL Board Meeting
Bridgetown, Barbados – 11 February, 2020 (BRB): CIWiL’s Board of Directors and Regional Secretariat participated in a Regional Planning Meeting on CSW and Beijing +25 ahead of a 2-day board meeting. This regional planning meeting was held in partnership with several stakeholders on February 10-11, 2020 under the theme ‘Building a coordinated position for Caribbean negotiations on Beijing+25’.
Over 60 Caribbean leaders to collaborate, coordinate and develop a unified sub-regional position and advocacy strategy to effectively advance the Caribbean’s agenda prior to United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 64 in March 2020. The meeting brought together government, national gender machineries, civil society representatives including gender experts and advocates, development partners and academia from across the Region.
In her remarks Lady A. Anande Trotman-Joseph, CIWiL President challenged regional representatives to continue to partner ‘strategize and adopt new paradigms and policies which re-envision our collective approaches and realize the culture shifting which will squarely address old and new gender discrimination and realize gender equality and parity.’ She further urged regional ‘policy makers…not to walk back from the commitments, historic and valuable gains of women made together on many global stages including Beijing, Cairo and in the General Assemblies of the United Nations.’
CIWiL is delighted to have collaborated with our partner ParlAmericas and other multi-stakeholder teams inclusive of CARICOM, UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean, the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit at the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill, Caribbean Women in Leadership (CIWiL); and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy to facilitate this meeting. Some of the areas discussed included the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; the Progress of the Caribbean: From Beijing’s Pillars to Generation Equality’s Themes; Introduction to Negotiations; Establishing Caribbean Priorities in Regional and Global Negotiating Spaces; Developing Common Ground on Issues of Concern; and Process and Next Steps for Input into the Political Declaration.
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About CIWiL: Caribbean Women in Leadership (CIWiL) is a non-partisan and independent organization, established to monitor and strengthen the work of increasing women’s political participation in the region through advocacy, networking, research and capacity building.
Contact: For more information please contact, the Gender and Communications Officer at cdaniel@ciwil.org or at 1-868-345-9153.