Justice Cannot Wait: What CSW70 Means for Africa in an Age of Gender Backlash
By Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller:
The gender equality agenda does not reset every year with a new host country, but it accumulates, or it erodes, says the writer. (Image: Freepik)
When the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) opened at United Nations headquarters in New York on 9 March, the world witnessed something unprecedented in seven decades of multilateral gender diplomacy. The Agreed Conclusions, which have traditionally been adopted by consensus, were instead passed by recorded vote: 37 in favour, 1 against (the United States), with 6 abstentions. The applause that erupted in the General Assembly Hall was a political declaration.
For those of us working on gender equality from the Global South, that moment crystallised some...
