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WOMEN’S PLATFORM

Since 2010 I have been privileged to represent BPW Northern Ireland on the Board of Women’s
Platform (formerly NI Women’s European Platform), a feminist membership organisation.
The Platform works to achieve gender equality for women and girls in Northern Ireland and to
ensure that the voices of women in Northern Ireland are heard at national and international
levels.

At a local and regional level Women’s Platform works collaboratively with the lead Northern
Ireland women’s sector organisations, with our sister organisations of the UK Joint Committee
on Women – NAWO in England, Engender in Scotland and WEN Wales - and the National
Women's Council in Ireland.

At European level, Women’s Platform works with the European Women's Lobby on issues such
as gender equality, violence against women, human trafficking, immigration and asylum, and
of course post-Brexit issues.

Women’s Platform is in Special Consultative Status
with the UN Economic and Social Committee, and in
th
October 2021 the 20 Anniversary of UN Security
Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security
was celebrated by an online event with the UN in New
York. We also provide the secretariat to the Northern
Ireland Assembly All Party Group on UNSCR 1325.

Women’s Platform co-ordinates the NI civil society re-
sponse to CEDAW, and advocates locally for implemen-
tation of CEDAW recommendations and the state’s in-
ternational obligations through Northern Ireland legis-
lation and policy. We engage with policy and decision-
makers to highlight these obligations in international
law, and build capacity on CEDAW and other interna-
tional mechanisms for gender equality and women’s
rights.
For more information see our website
www.womensplatform.org

Jeanette Thornton Pic at event on CEDAW held at Parliament Buildings Stormont in 2021
-.R Liz Law – Women’s Platform, Mme Nicole Ameline then Vice Chair UN CEDAW Committee,
yours truly and Women’s Platform Director Jonna Monaghan.