CSW62: CAP collaborations and events
CSW62 side event: Presenting challenges and considering solutions to combat sex trafficking and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls
Watch the video recording.
NGOCSW Parallel Event: Building new solidarities among rural & urban women against sexual exploitation
Watch video clips of the speakers:
- Mickey Meji, founder Kwanele and representative Embrace Dignity (South Africa)
- Sizani Ngubane, founder, Rural Women's Movement (South Africa)
- Nicole Matthews, director Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition (USA)
- Yasmin Vafa, director Rights4Girls (USA)
- Per-Anders Sunesson, ambassador on Trafficking in Human Beings (Sweden)
Member events:
Fondation Scelles with Proskauer, "Combating online sex trafficking: confronting challenges, forging cooperation": download Participant Kit
Women@thewell official side event with Holy See and other NGOs, "Preventing Human Trafficking among Rural Women and Girls: Integrating Inherent Dignity into a Human Rights Model ", Watch video recording
Apne Aap parallel event, "The Last Girl and Her Vulnerabilities to Sex Trafficking" Watch video recording
Meeting with the UN Secretary General
Photo credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias
During CSW62, CAP delegates met with the UN Secretary General António Guterres to discuss the urgent need for all UN agencies to finally respect UN agreed language and standards on prostitution, its exploitation, and the fight against sexual exploitation and abuses.
For more information, read our paper on Prostitution under International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of States' Obligations and the Best Ways to Implement them.
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