GWL Voices at CSW70: Reframing leadership legitimacy from global to local and youth

During the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, GWL Voices convenes a series of connected dialogues that bridge evidence, policy, and intergenerational action—linking local leadership, global governance reform, and youth engagement. Hosted in New York, these moments are designed to reframe leadership legitimacy from the ground up and toward the future.

Bridging the Leadership Gap: Women in Local Governments

• 📅 March 10, 2026 | 5:00–6:30 pm (EDT)
• 📍 Instituto Cervantes - Nueva York

This event presents findings from GWL Voices’ two-year Women in Politics research, highlighting how women local leaders translate global commitments into lived realities—despite persistent underrepresentation in mayoral and regional executive roles across Latin America. The discussion centers on structural barriers, parity frameworks, and why women’s local leadership is essential to democratic legitimacy and effective governance.

Panel in Spanish. Simultaneous interpretation available.

Power, Representation, and the Future of the UN

• 📅 March 12, 2026 | 5:00–6:30 pm

• 📍 Instituto Cervantes - Nueva York

At a critical juncture for multilateralism, this high-level conversation draws on the Women in Multilateralism 2026report to make a clear, evidence-based case for women’s leadership as a structural prerequisite for an effective UN. With senior representatives from Member States and global leaders, the event explores concrete reforms—and the historic opportunity to finally advance a Madam Secretary-General.

Her Turn REACT | Open Call to Students

• 🎓 Following each event

GWL Voices invites students and young leaders to participate in HER TURN REACT: interactive, facilitated spaces to reflect on the discussions, connect research to lived experience, and co-create ideas for advancing gender-equal leadership from local to global levels. These sessions are part of GWL Voices’ commitment to intergenerational dialogue and youth-driven change.

➡️ Open call—students from all disciplines are welcome