MWIA Update No. 73 March 2018

1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Professor Dr. Dr. Bettina Pfleiderer, Germany

I just returned to my home town Münster in Germany at the 27th of March after being in the US since the 10th of March attending two events on behalf of MWIA. First, I participated at the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York which was held from March 12-23. The theme of this year’s CSW was “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.” About 10,000 delegates were attending this year’s CSW. ...