Date/Time: 11 March 2025, 3:30 – 5 pm CET
Vienna International Centre room G-0541 and online
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In the face of a polycrisis—including climate change, armed conflict, and economic uncertainty—states are navigating the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its gender implications. Generative AI has created opportunities for gender equality, such as improving access to health, social services, and violence prevention for women and girls during crises. However, significant barriers remain, including unequal access to technology, online exploitation, and exclusion from AI’s benefits,
especially for marginalized groups. Without targeted interventions, emerging technologies risk reinforcing gender biases, enabling new forms of violence, and amplifying misogynistic rhetoric, disinformation, and systemic inequalities, especially in workplaces and societal power structures. What is the role of the recently adopted UN Convention against Cybercrime (UNGA New York 24 December 2024) in this context? Can a new Optional Protocol to CEDAW fill the gaps?
In 2025, the global community marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995).
This Information day is jointly organized by the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD) Vienna, the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) Vienna and the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice. Its aim is to brief Vienna audiences on important issues relevant to the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in New York from 10-21 March 2025. It is also the first occasion to discuss gender-related issues within the framework of the newly adopted UN Convention on Cybercrime.
Speaker: Linda Witong, Soroptimist International
Discussants: Pavlina Pavlova, WG Cybercrime Coordinator, Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Patricia Elias, Chief of Diplomatic Campaign, Every Woman Treaty
Moderator: Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Kennis: Knowledge for Safety and Good Governance, Chair, CSD Vienna