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CSW Parallel Event: Educating Women and Girls: Advancing their Empowerment and Equality
13 March 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

In this NGO CSW parallel event, co-hosted by the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) and Women Graduates-USA, panelists will discuss the progress made and ways forward to achieve gender equality, highlighting the importance of:
- Opening doors to leadership through education (Joan-Marie Aylward, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland & Labrador)
- Supporting girls’ agency through a quality education (Wanda Bedard, President & Founder of 60 Million Girls)
- Fostering women’s and girls’ innate critical thinking skills (Geeta Desai, Co-Director of Global Affairs, Women Graduates-USA)
- Accelerating progress on the Beijing Platform for Action: An intergenerational dialogue (Soon-Young Yoon, Cities for CEDAW Founder & Organizer of the NGO Forum at the 1995 Beijing Conference).




