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2 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2018 The 62 nd session of the United Nations Com mis- sion on the Status of Women (CSW62), the UN’s largest gathering on gender equality, took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from March 12 to March 23, 2018. UNWLA mem- bers participate in this event annually. This year’s focus was on the theme, “Challenges and opportu- nities in achieving gender equality and the empow- erment of rural women and girls.” According to the UN Women website sum- mary on this year’s theme: “ Without rural women and girls, rural communities and urban societies would not function. Yet, on almost every measure of development, because of gender inequalities and discrimination, they fare worse than rural men or urban women. Fewer than 13 per cent of land- holders worldwide are women, and while the global pay gap between men and women stands at 23 per cent, in rural areas, it can be as high as 40 per cent . Rural women ensure food security for their communities, build climate resilience and strengthen economies. But gender inequalities, such as discriminatory laws and social norms, combined with a fast - changing economic, techno- logical and environmental landscape, restrict their full potential, leaving them far behind men and their urban counterparts.” The World Federation of Women’s Organ- izations, whose main representative at the UN is Dr. Marta Kicharowska - Kebalo, organizes, spon- sors or co - sponsors at least two parallel events each year. This year’s first such event was held on Friday, March 16 and was entitled “Women Jour- nalists as Human Rights Defenders in Ukraine.” Irene Jarosewich, Main WFUWO Representa- tive to the UN Dept . of Public Information, was the moderator. A well - rounded panel presented each contributor’s experiences in her individual attempt to provide and ensure factual information during the current war in Ukraine. Especially intere sting was the report of Iryna Gudyma, currently a com- munication consultant at the UN in New York, who helped launch the renowned Ukraine Crisis Media Center as a means of providing objective and up - to - date information from conflict - affected Ukraine. Dr. Ta mara Martsenyuk , whose doctorate is in sociology, is now a Fulbright Scholar at Co- lumbia University and is a Gender Expert and pre- sented on her observations of differences in report- ing by male or female reporters. The females, be- sides reporting on the fact s, are apt to include more detail and a more humane story. Marta Kichorowska - Kebalo, Irena Jarosewich, Melanne Verveer, Marianna Zajac On March 23, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations organized (with WFUWO as co - organizers) a sessi on entitled “Em- powerment of Rural Women and Girls in Ukraine.” The moderator of this afternoon event was Ambas- sador Melanne Verveer, a person well - known in United Nations and Washington circles, who is of Ukrainian descent. In 2009, Ms. Verveer was ap- point ed by President Obama as the first US Am- bassador for Global Women’s Issues. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Georgetown In- stitute for Women, Peace and Security. Again, the panel members (Lyudmyla Porokhnyak Han- owska, President NCW of Ukrai ne; Halyna Ski- palska, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Foun- dation of Public Health; Natalia Karbowska, Direc- tor of strategic development of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund; Natalia Hnatyuk, President of the community organization of her village, and others) presented different facts as well as opinions about the road to empowerment. Ms. Hnatyuk stated that we do not realize how important small com- munities are, and that such towns and communi- ties mirror the overall picture of Ukraine's life. Therefore, by empo wering women at this level we work together to empower women on a national level.
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