Tomorrow I leave to New York to undertake one of the most incredible opportunities I have been lucky enough to receive. Read my internal thoughts as I scramble to process what this all means for me.
Josie Olsen: Tenuously linking Harry Potter with my pre-CSW62 experience
I have always identified with Hermione Granger, but never have I felt so desperately in need of a Time-Turner than now. With up to 15 CSW events on at the same time each day, choosing which to attend is a struggle. Like Hermione, I have my own pet focuses when it comes to human (or elf) rights issues: gendered issues around media representation and climate change are my particular interests, so naturally the events on these clash as much as humanly possible.
Applications open for our Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues delegation
Applications are now open for our first ever delegation to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Applications are due midnight, Sunday 4 March 2018.
Applications open for the Commission on the Status of Women delegation
Applications are now open for our first ever delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Applications are due midnight, Saturday 20 January 2018.
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Libby Rahman: Reflecting on the Annual Meetings
Two key outtakes from the 2017 World Bank & IMF Annual Meetings for me:
1. The World needs more resilient infrastructure to withstand the impact of climate change 2. Schools need to teach more digital skills for the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Anna Cusack: The Pacific COP
Climate change in the Pacific has been well documented in Western media, but what frustrates me is that the sinking of Pacific islands below rising tides is too often portrayed as predetermined, rather than something can be prevented. The world has never seen changes in climate patterns such as what we are beginning to experience, and the future outcomes for nations cannot be foretold.
Eseta Le'au: The land of the free
Freedom. A theme which would pop up constantly throughout the week while we were meeting with think tanks and visited panel discussions in preparation for the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. How is the freedom of sovereign nations maintained when they deal with the World Bank and the IMF?