Economic Independence

For the CSW68, Women's Learning Partnership convened civil society leaders and experts to discuss strategies to advance women's economic security, including legal reform, skills-building and leadership workshops, community cooperatives, agricultural networks, and more.

Mary Robinson gives the keynote address at WLP's Clash or Consensus? conference.

As part of the CSW65 Virtual NGO CSW Forum, WLP brought together leading women's rights advocates for a discussion on reforming discriminatory family laws that limit women’s access to financial independence and stability, including inheritance laws, property rights, early marriage, travel restrictions, access to education, and more. 

The Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law, of which WLP is a coordinating committee member, hosted a side event on March 13 at the Church of Sweden. Gender equality advocates discussed how legal restrictions to women’s inheritance, resources, and property curtail women’s ability to fully participate as equal members of society.