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How the UN women’s talks failed to call out corporate power – letting down our human rights defenders

Last month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly recognised risks to women human rights defenders.

By Rebecca Reeve
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Delegates at the 59th CSW in 2015.

Delegates at the 59th CSW in 2015. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown/Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND). Some rights reserved.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), held annually in New York, is the UN’s preeminent event for gender equality. In formal proceedings, delegates of member states agree commitments for policy actions. At the 62nd CSW last month, the central theme was the empowerment of rural women and girls.

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