NEW YORK, USA/GENEVA | 22/4/2021 Ms Christine Mangale of the Lutheran Office for World Community in New York, speaking at a session of the CSW61 Photo: LWF/A.Hillert
LWF’s program director in New York office looks at conclusions of UN Commission on the Status of Women
(LWI) - A month on from the 65th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the work has only just begun for Lutheran delegates back in their home countries, who are tasked with monitoring, implementing and holding their governments to account.
“We never finish the work of the CSW,” says Ms Christine Mangale, program director for the Lutheran Office for World Community in New York. “The focus now is national level monitoring and engaging with governments by continuing to knock on their doors. As long as we keep asking questions, they know we are following up, but otherwise the work just gets swept under the rug.”
What can be done to break down barriers that prevent women from fulfilling their potential and reaching top leadership positions in the church and in society? That question was at the heart of a webinar hosted by the LWF on 8 March, International Women’s Day, featuring five women leaders from the global communion’s past, present and future.