Small wash, Big Wash
‘Kleine wasjes, grote wasjes’ is the song that plays in my mind while I am writing this blog. Small washes and big washes are what my advocacy work comes down to in the CSW69. The small wash being my personal laundry, done by hand, as most travelers do. Image: socks, including menopause socks, drying I […]
It is critical that women are truly at the table, not just on the menu
Women at the helm for the CSW69 for the Netherlands is represented here in New York by a female ambassador, Lise Gregoire-van Haaren as the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN in New York Image: Permanent Representative Lise Gregoire – Van Haaren at the UN voting on behalf of the Netherlands Image: from left […]
Culture Clashes with Real Women’s Lives
On Thursday I prepared for a speech at the Single SuperMom event that evening. Besides that, I attended a Side Event in the packed conference room 2 about ‘attaining gender equality in our lifetime’. Cognizant that our minister of Emancipation, Mariëlle Paul, mentioned in her speech at the CSW69 that the speed in which gender […]
Meeting Friends and Compatriots
Lee Towers sings ‘You never walk alone’ and every year at the Commission on the Status of Women I experience the truth of it. There was the incident of being greeted by a woman that I am fairly certain I never met in real life, while seated on my flight from Amsterdam to New York […]
The Ministers, Friend or Foe
Every year, every cabinet-cycle, civil society has to find out whether cabinet members are on their side, or not, by interacting with them. Pleasant, competent ministers can be friend or foe. That makes the quite intimate (about 50 people can be present) NGO Briefing at the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN a […]
Grabbing the news for women’s rights
Some weeks ago I wrote a Mediaplan (capital letter intentional) to connect the CSW69 in March with its subjects and results to the General Assembly of the UN in September. As it is, the focal point of a given year is the same at the CSW as at the GA. However, the meeting of the […]
Finding Powerful Friends on Menopause Care
I am famous here. Well, that is perhaps too big a statement, but people definitely recognise and acknowledge me in the corridors and side events. Bear with me and it will become clear. Like last year, for me the CSW side events started with the Israeli side event ‘Resilience and Courage in Times of Conflict.’ […]
C’est le ton qui fait la musique
Me being me, I started the 8th of March with sending a “Happy International Women’s Day” e-card to anyone I have in my Whatsapp account. In short, to a lot, a lot of women, and some men. Calling out ‘Ladies, Happy International Women’s Day’ to the flight attendants, to the ground crew checking me in, […]
Rearranging your room and getting settled
I have no idea how other people settle into the room they have rented for the duration of their stay away from home, but it always takes me a few hours at least to be comfortable in the room. During the Commission on the Status of Women 69 (CSW69) it is a studio apartement for […]
Workshop Juridische Handvatten Tegen AI
Over maatregelen en aanbevelingen gericht op het creëren van een eerlijker en veiliger digitaal landschap.
