Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Equitable Participation in Local Governance and Public Life
Church Center for the United Nations (Drew Room)The Asia Dalit Rights Forum, in collaboration with the The Inclusivity Project, Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO Nepal), and Dalit Women Forum/Nagorik Uddyog, will host an in-person parallel event during CSW70....
Women from Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent Claim Climate Justice
Climate change disproportionately impacts women from Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent, compounding entrenched structural inequalities. Caste- and descent-based discrimination, landlessness, inherited livelihood insecurity, and poverty intensify their exposure to...
Hidden and Normalized Inequality and Violence: The Realities of Women from Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent
Drew Room, UN Church CenterAcross the world, women from communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWD)—including Dalit, Quilombola, Haratine, and Roma women—continue to face extreme, multidimensional, and often invisible forms of gender-based violence. Despite...
Algorithmic Bias, Gender Justice, and Descent-Based Discrimination: Ensuring AI Works for All Women and Girls
Conference Room E, UN Headquarters New York, United StatesGender discrimination remains deeply rooted in many societies and is often experienced through intersectional forms of inequality shaped by factors such as descent, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and digital access....