The Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize
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WOMEN'S HERITAGE WALKS IN WALES |
Llafur, The Welsh People’s History Society, has recently launched the Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize, for essays on any aspect of Welsh Social or Cultural history. The prize is open to all previously unpublished authors, and the winning essay will be published in the society’s journal, Llafur. This ia a great opportunity for female authors To champion women’s contributions to Welsh culture and history.
Details of the prize and how to enter, in both English and Welsh, are above & BELOW 
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Soon, with Covid restrictions lifted we will be able to venture out once more to walk in small groups. How about adding to the experience by following one of the new Women’s Heritage Walks in your area?
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So don your walking boots and some suitable clothing and learn more about more notable and remarkable women in Welsh history.
This image shows a female prisoner in Swansea Goal, a munitions worker killed in 1917, Amy Dillwyn business woman and novelist and Kate Bosse Griffiths German Jew who fled to Swansea and established the Egyptian Centre in the city
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Best practice for CEDAW is when States Parties consult with civil society on the Concluding Observations of the Committee from previous examinations and work with civil society to work out how best to implement this guidance in that country. Thus far, the experience of civil society in the UK is that this depth of consultation has not yet occurred.
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The Sixty-Fifth Session of the COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN concluded on Friday, 26th March 2021.
REMARKS BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND UN WOMEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA, AT THE CLOSING OF CSW65, CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING HERE: HTTPS://WWW.UNWOMEN.ORG/EN/NEWS/STORIES/2021/3/SPEECH-ED-PHUMZILE-CLOSING-CSW65 Agreed Conclusions The Commission on the Status of Women adopted agreed conclusions on “Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls” on 26 March 2021. The advance unedited version of the CSW65 agreed conclusions is now available on the CSW65 website at https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw65-2021 . Translations in the official United Nations languages will be added as they become available. |
RECORDINGS OF CSW65 MEETINGS AND SIDE EVENTS
THE RECORDINGS OF THE CSW65 OFFICIAL MEETINGS REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON DEMAND. TO WATCH THE RECORDED WEBCASTS, PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINKS ON THE OFFICIAL MEETINGS PAGE AT HTTPS://WWW.UNWOMEN.ORG/EN/CSW/CSW65-2021/OFFICIAL-MEETINGS MANY CSW65 SIDE EVENT ORGANISERS RECORDED THE LIVE STREAMS OF THEIR EVENTS AND THE LINKS FOR THESE RECORDINGS ARE AVAILABLE VIA THE SCHEDULE OF CSW65 SIDE EVENTS AT HTTPS://WWW.UNWOMEN.ORG/EN/CSW/CSW65-2021/SIDE-EVENTS un women LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT, AND WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE YOU TO VIRTUALLY JOIN THE GENERATION EQUALITY FORUM CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE IN MEXICO (29-31 MARCH 2021), AND IN FRANCE FROM 30 JUNE – 2 JULY 2021. |
WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN WALES: HOW GENDERED IS MY VALLEY?
Wales Assembly of Women’s presentation to the United Nations CSW65 on March 18th 2021
Click below to read Dr Jean Silvan Evans report on the WAW presentation in the current edition of Barry Nub News
This year we decided against holding a Welsh only conference to celebrate International Women's Day. Instead, we embraced the possibilities offered by the fact that the UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) was holding their meetings virtually.
We put together a parallel session using some of our previous Awardees who presented their research, live, at this year's event
“What do you know? You’re a woman!” –Gendered Experiences, Institutions, and Representation: Being a Female Local Councillor in Welsh Local Government by Leah Hibbs a final year PhD student at Cardiff University funded by the ESRC to research women's political representation and the experiences of female local councillors in Welsh Local Government.
A critical examination of women leaders’ experiences of gender (in)equality in Welsh sport leadership by Philippa Davies an ESRC-funded WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data) PhD student at Cardiff University
The Representation of Disabled Women in Public Life in Wales: Progress, Challenges and Shortcomings by Ruth Nortey a doctoral student at Cardiff University Business School who is jointly funded by Disability Wales and the ESRC. Ruth will be sharing important data from her MSc which has informed her PhD research project proposal.
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July 2020: Getting women back to work: that was the title of our submission to the Our Future Wales Consultation run by the Welsh Government in response to the covid-19 pandemic. Read our submission by clicking below
APRIL 2018: TAKING THE BATTLE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FROM WALES TO THE WORLD. DR ELERI EVANS AND DR JEAN SILVAN EVANS REPORT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN.
REPORT PUBLISHED IN THE WESTERN MAIL ON APRIL 3, 2018 |
July 2018: Women from Wales call for a global UN Treaty to combat violence against women and girls (VAWG) at the UN annual conference of its Commission on the Status of Women, Jean Silvan Evans from Wales Assembly of Women tells us more
https://www.bevanfoundation.org/commentary/women-wales-press-global-un-treaty-vawg/ 
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Dr Eleri Evans of Wales Assembly of Women, Catherine Fookes of Women’s Equality Network and Ruth Coombes of Equality and Human Rights Commission Wales meet with then First Minister Carwyn Jones