Picture: Launch of WILPF Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2011
In March the WILPF UN office attended the 56th Commission of Status of Women (CSW 56). The CSW took place from February 27th to March 9th on the priority theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
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