Today An Cuypers, HRLC Research and Project Officer, is in Strasbourg leading a session on Building a Shared Understanding: Women's Rights, Gender Equality and Its Diversity.
The presentation is part of a Study Session on, Using Technology for Young Women's Empowerment within the Framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, organised by European YWCA in cooperation with the Youth Department of the Council of Europe.
With a special focus on a gender perspective using a human rights based approach, the Study Session brings together young women with the aim of building a network of activists with knowledge about technology, gender, human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also aims to provide the network with the skills to use contemporary technologies as a tool for influencing the debate around the implementation of the SDGs.
Ms Cuypers has worked previously on gender-based violence at the European Institute for Gender Equality (Vilnius) and at the Belgian division of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg). She will also be contributing to a session on My Toolbox: Human Rights Mechanisms and Instruments Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs in context: Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Posted on Monday 12th December 2016