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TARA TENA!!!
MALIGAYANG BUWAN NG KABABAIHAN!
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Celebrate Womanity! You are invited to join us for an intimate night of music, arts and drinks on March 21, 2009 (Saturday) 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Ten 02 Bar Timog Ave. cor. Sct. Ybardolaza Quezon City. Please come as your alter ego and take the center stage to perform your favorite song, dance, or read your poetry and any other literary piece. Share your thoughts about young women’s participation or express your solidarity and commitment to young women’s activism in any artistic, creative and inspiring way! Be part of the art workshops and enjoy the art exhibits too!
To confirm, contact:
Carol Bello (09275426787)
Erika Sales (09175111109)
cedawyouth@gmail.com
The youth is an important force of a sustained movement for gender advocacy. They have their own perspectives and strategies that could significantly contribute in claiming women’s human rights and addressing the critical problems of our times. Their energy, idealism, and creativity are valuable resources to promote and sustain women’s human rights advocacy using a gender-based rights approach with a twist of new flavour and vigor.
In this light, a group of young individuals and advocates came together last year to conceptualize the founding of a “CEDAW Youth Committee” under the CEDAW Watch Network but which can work independently from its mother network. CEDAW Youth Committee (CYC) is an association of students and young women professionals which aims to promote the youth’s understanding of the important of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It aims to develop the leadership of young women and increase their awareness and sense of responsibility in the campaign for women’s human rights. Core members include young women involved in various fields such as education, development, law, and media.
Led by some young women professionals and with the support of UNIFEM SEAP and CEDAW Watch Network, a young women’s magazine entitled “Speak Out” was developed to promote gender advocacy through popularizing CEDAW. The magazine will be launched on March 2009 in time for the celebration of the Women’s Month.
While promoting gender advocacy, CYC focuses on particular issues relevant to young women such as sexual violence, self-esteem, body image, education, inter-generational gaps within the women’s movement, and the sustainability of the campaign for women’s rights. CYC believes it is important that young women’s voices are heard and that they are encouraged and given the opportunities toward increased meaningful involvement, participation and ownership in the movement for women’s rights.
CEDAW Youth Committee
c/o Miriam College – Women and Gender Institute
Ground Floor, Caritas Building, Miriam College, Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines
Telfax: (632) 4359229
Trunkline: (632) 5805400 local 3590
Email: cedawyouth@gmail.com or mmreyes@mc.edu.ph
In this light, a group of young individuals and advocates came together last year to conceptualize the founding of a “CEDAW Youth Committee” under the CEDAW Watch Network but which can work independently from its mother network. CEDAW Youth Committee (CYC) is an association of students and young women professionals which aims to promote the youth’s understanding of the important of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It aims to develop the leadership of young women and increase their awareness and sense of responsibility in the campaign for women’s human rights. Core members include young women involved in various fields such as education, development, law, and media.
Led by some young women professionals and with the support of UNIFEM SEAP and CEDAW Watch Network, a young women’s magazine entitled “Speak Out” was developed to promote gender advocacy through popularizing CEDAW. The magazine will be launched on March 2009 in time for the celebration of the Women’s Month.
While promoting gender advocacy, CYC focuses on particular issues relevant to young women such as sexual violence, self-esteem, body image, education, inter-generational gaps within the women’s movement, and the sustainability of the campaign for women’s rights. CYC believes it is important that young women’s voices are heard and that they are encouraged and given the opportunities toward increased meaningful involvement, participation and ownership in the movement for women’s rights.
CEDAW Youth Committee
c/o Miriam College – Women and Gender Institute
Ground Floor, Caritas Building, Miriam College, Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines
Telfax: (632) 4359229
Trunkline: (632) 5805400 local 3590
Email: cedawyouth@gmail.com or mmreyes@mc.edu.ph
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