We’re excited to share with you that the Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law (GCEFL) is hosting a side event titled ‘The Rise of ‘Family Values’ & Strategies for Rights-Based Family Law Reform’ at #CSW69 on 12th March 2025 at 8:30 am. The event will be held at the Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave, New York (see Google Maps here).
We would like to invite you to kindly register here or RSVP via email.
About the Event
Women and girls globally are affected by discriminatory family laws, policies, and practices, which consequently have multiple and intersecting impacts in all other areas of their lives. In the recent decade, there has been a stagnation of progress globally in the reform of unequal family laws.
Speakers from national governments, global, regional and national women's rights organisations and UN agencies / Special Mechanisms will set the global context of anti-rights pushback including the instrumentalization and rise of 'family values' discourse and the impact on equality for women and girls within and outside the family. They will primarily discuss how family law reform and movement-building are key strategies to counter pushback and transnational mobilization by anti-rights groups. Speakers will also discuss why reforming family laws and practices must be prioritised by States and amplified and resourced by all actors working towards gender equality.
This event hosted by the GCEFL, is co-sponsored by the Government of Zambia, the Government Offices of Sweden, UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, UN Women, CSO members of the GCEFL Coordinating Committee* and ACT Alliance.
The Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law is led by a committee of 8 women’s rights, human rights and faith-based organisations: Equality Now, Musawah, Act Church of Sweden, UN Women, FEMNET, CLADEM, Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP).