One Step Forward Two Steps Back for Youth Participation – YWCA Australia

26 April 2016 by Hannah Gissane

If you can’t get a seat at the table, then bring your own chair.

From the local to the global, young women leaders are well-versed in innovating participation where our voices would be otherwise be silenced or go unheard.

This spirit fuelled the CSW Youth Forum leading into the 60^th Commission on the Status of Women. The CSW Youth Forum, or YouthCSW, was a youth-led safe space for over 350 young people from more than 50 countries. We gathered to weave together our collective work for a world where women’s human rights are realised and respected…