Annette Lawson

Annette Lawson is chair of the National Alliance of Women’s Organisations (NAWO). She was a commissioner of the Women’s National Commission of the UK, and vice-president of the European Women's Lobby.

CSW: The UN is nothing without being global

Agendas driven by political alignments, issues of sovereignty, the secular versus the non-secular, and donor versus recipient countries, continue to inform the debate at the CSW. Ten years ago, no agreement was reached on how to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. What are the

By Annette Lawson

/ 13 Mar 2013

UK women: the loss of an independent collective voice

As the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women opens in New York today, women's organisations from the UK find themselves ignored at home and excluded at the UN, says Annette Lawson

By Annette Lawson

/ 27 Feb 2012