Deadline: 16-Sep-2024
The UN system in Bangladesh, under the leadership of the UN Women Country Office, is launching this call for applications for civil society organization representatives seeking sponsorship to participate in the upcoming Beijing+30 Civil Society Organization Forum 17-18 November 2024 and/or the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review 19-21 November 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
To facilitate diverse and intergenerational participation and representation from Bangladesh, the UN system in Bangladesh is pooling funds to sponsor representatives to participate in the Beijing+30 Ministerial Conference and CSO Forum in Bangkok, Thailand.
Criteria
- Expertise and history of working with women’s human rights, gender equality and intersectional feminist issues, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), Agenda 2030 and SDGs localization, among others.
- Working with/representing at least one or more of these constituencies:
- Rural women
- Migrant women
- Indigenous women
- Women with disabilities
- Urban poor women
- Young women and girls
- Older women
- Persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and/or sex characteristics
- Women survivors of violence
- Persons living with HIV and AIDS
- Women workers from a diversity of sectors, including sex workers
- Women in ICT (including gender data and artificial intelligence)
- Women in media
- Women in or affected by conflict situations (including women refugees or those who are internally displaced)
- Women from religious groups
- Women affected by climate change
- Availability to attend the CSO Forum and/or the interministerial conference on the Beijing+30 Review in November 2024 as well as a preparatory meeting beforehand and a debrief meeting afterwards.
- The applicant/representative must be over the age of 18.
- The applicant/representative must have the ability to travel (e.g., have a passport valid for 6 months after the forum).
- The applicant must represent an organization that is committed to and acts in accordance with global human rights principles and also practices inclusive and progressive feminism, whose work does not marginalize or exclude any person or group on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics, nor on grounds of ethnicity, nationality/citizen status, disability, race, age, caste, indigeneity, socio-economic status, migrant status, household status, HIV and AIDS status, sector of work, religion or other factors.
For more information, visit UN Women.