In the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), affiliated to the United Nations (UN), after 20 years have passed on the Beijing Declaration:

The Women and Memory Forum, Center for Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA) and Nazra for Feminist Studies invite you to the panel:

Eliminating Violence against Women: A continued Feminist Struggle in Egypt

The Egyptian feminist movement has undergone multiple waves of changes and multiple discourses of activism, marking milestones such as the Cairo Population and Development Conference in 1994, and the Beijing Declaration in 1995. The panel will provide insight and shed light into the challenges facing the current feminist movement in Egypt and the successes and failures of the feminist movement building within a context of prevailing violence against women, and the discourses adopted to faces these challenges.

Date: 11 March

Time: 2:30 pm New York Time

Venue: Armenian Convention Center,

630 2nd Avenue (at 35th street), New York, NY 10017

Room Assignment: V Hall