Forum host, NGO CSW is a coalition of many global non-government organisations, civil societies and individuals working towards the world-wide attainment of women’s human rights, gender equality and empowerment of women and girls on an international level. Its mission is to provide an international platform for women’s rights advocates across the globe to inform, engage and inspire.
The audience will hear from inspirational women and men making a difference globally through social enterprise. NGO’s will also be highlighted, sharing insights into their projects and programs. The UN CSW68 Forum. Will take place on March 20, 12.30 pm at CCUN 11th Floor, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York. Entry is Free.
Carol Hanlon, Founder/CEO, Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc. (Belmont BEC | BEC Global), TCF WA Inc. (TCF Global) and BPW Business Incubator, will be presenting at the NGO CSW68 Forum this month. This will be the ninth forum she has co-ordinated during UN NGOCSW with a focus on the theme ‘Economic Empowerment of Women. T
Ms Hanlon will explore the range of issues affecting the economic empowerment of women, gender equality, women’s empowerment principles and the sustainable development goals at the forum. Her presentation will focus on empowering women entrepreneurs though small business training and mentoring projects, migrant sewing projects, circular economies, fashion sustainability and global export opportunities.
Other global speakers at the NGO CSW 2024 include:
Önder Şenol, DEFACTO Ready-to-Wear Textile Company, Turkey
DEFACTO supports female students through “The Dreams Made of Fabric” project. Surplus fabrics are donated to the vocational schools, where female students reflect their talent in design and fashion. Their products are sold in running DEFACTO stores and online.
Tiffany Larson, Days for Girls International, USA
Ms Larson will share how DfG, since 2008, has been working to achieve global menstrual equity through access to products, education, and advocacy. She will look at DfG’s decentralised social enterprise model, a market-oriented approach, which generates employment through sales, breaks down barriers to gender equity, and as a catalyst for transformative change within communities.
Terese Edwards, Single Mother Families Australia Inc.
Ms Edwards will outline SMFA’s recent success in tackling poverty. It has engaged in human rights systems with the United Nations and its work was validated by the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Women and Finance. SMFA now seeks settings that enable aspirations and entrepreneurship to advance individual and systemic empowerment.
Samin Khojasteh, Peivande Gole Narges, Iran
Ms Khojasteh will provide insights on the empowerment of women heads of households and orphaned girls by vocational training, helping them get a job or selling their products in exhibitions and artisan fairs. The charity also has attention on mental problems which have a direct or indirect impact on physical health and their work.
Sweta Gupta, BPW Sudan
Ms Gupta will look at the impact of the devastating effects of the war in Sudan on women owners of small and medium businesses and the expected recovery solutions to prevent collapse of their economic situation and assisting them to improve their urgent needs (war economics).
Prossy Sserunjogi, Kinawataka Women Initiatives, Uganda
Ms Sserunjogl will discuss an innovative sustainability project recycling using straws to make useful products like mats, bags, belts, and wallets. While cleaning up the environment, marginalised women and youth are empowered for self-sustainability. The KWI in Ugranda use the proceeds to educate vulnerable girls from the slums. They also encourage their clients to return worn products for Re-recycle into cups plates and spoons
Sylvana Hajjar Abbas, BPW Lebanon
Ms Abbas will provide an update on the ‘sewing’ project established after the massive explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020. Through the support of BPW Australia, TCF WA and Belmont BEC and others, a 40ft container of sewing machines, textiles and accessories was donated to help and empower Lebanese women.
Joslyn Eades-Tass Consulting Services, Dream A Dream Foundation Ltd., Australia
Ms Eades-Tass will share insights into innovative strategic opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to become empowered, enable and present in the entrepreneurial sector.
Dr Rachel Hanlon, Hello Machine, Australia
Dr Hanlon will update and inform the forum on matters of media archaeology providing vision and perceptions from her PHD technology & communications global art project. It explores how the telephone, an object’ that was significant to a particular generation as simply a technological device, can surpass its intended functional purpose and evolve into something else altogether.
Geeta Sidhu-Robb, WCorp, UK
Ms Sidhu-Robb will explore a new kind of manifesto where conscious corporations commit to certified workplace reform, courageous leaders embed game-changing opportunity and inspired communities ignite grassroots movements. In this manifesto women and men are seen as powerful co-contributors towards the building of an ever-expanding world.
Delgermaa (Deggi) Altangerel, BPW Belmont, Australia
Ms Altangerel will present on the intersectional impact on women, employment, and career opportunities. She will look at women’s identities – including disability, cultural, ethnic and racial diversity, Indigeneity, life stages, gender and other identities and strategies for equity and inclusion in workplaces and in decision-making.
Ms Hanlon said she was thrilled to once again be invited to address this important global forum. “It is an honour to be the convenor of this group of amazing women and men who are making a difference in the world today regarding the economic empowerment of women, promotion of gender equality, and the sustainable development goals.”
For further information please contact:
Carol Hanlon, E| carol.hanlon@belmontbec.com
Belmont BEC Inc. (BEC Global) | TCFWA Inc. (TCF Global) | BPW Business Incubator
PO Box 370, Cloverdale, WA 6985, Western Australia Ph+61 8 9479 3777 h M| +61 417963231
Speaker Profiles: https://bpwbusinessincubator.com/empoweringwomen or view www.ngocsw.org
