What do Plan Youth, the UN Secretary General and Queen Rania of Jordan have in common?
They will all be in attendance at the 54th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)! The CSW will be held during the first two weeks of March at the UN in NY. The CSW is an annual conference that brings together NGO’s, UN member states, experts and interested parties to discuss the issues of girls and women and gender equality. Plan’s focus will be on promoting the Because I am a Girl (BIG) reports, sharing our expertise in girl child issues and facilitating opportunities for youth to engage in high level discussions. A key feature of this year’s session is the evaluation and celebration of the progress achieved towards gender equality on the 15th Anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. The Beijing Platform for Action was established in 1995 with a focus on the “girl child” and the unique obstacles and discrimination they face on the basis of their gender and age. In 1995, 198 UN Member States adopted a plan and an agenda for “women’s political and economic empowe
