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Every day women are starting new businesses. Whether small, medium-sized or large scale, motivated by pure survival or for self-fulfillment, female entrepreneurs are realizing ideas, generating income and creating employment opportunities for themselves and others. In fact, female entrepreneurs in developing countries are currently hailed as the new rising stars of the economies and different stakeholders have commended them as an important source of economic growth and development. Despite the growing number of female-led business and a significant increase of initiatives, policies and resources designed to create enabling environments for women entrepreneurs, women still own and manage fewer businesses than men.

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Within this, the two key areas of focus are primary prevention (stopping violence before it starts) and multisectoral services and responses to victims/survivors.

Through these discussions, CSOs and other experts from the field of gender-based violence can answer questions, and share experiences and best practices.

Why Join?

CSW is an opportunity for Member States to discuss areas of concern for women and girls, and agree on approaches to address these issues.  UN Women needs input from CSOs and practitioners on the ground to ensure that the discussions will be informed by high quality materials and reports, which:

-Highlight the most effective responses, with strong evidence;

- Identify the gaps and challenges in achieving the most effective responses;

- Demonstrate the need to prevent violence before it starts.

The discussion outcomes will be used to inform the findings and recommendations in the Secretary-General’s two reports, provided to CSW members to guide them in their discussions.

They will also be included in a report for the general public on the official CSW 57 website; and will feed into an Expert Group Meeting on prevention (Bangkok, 17-20 September 2012) which will also present its outcomes to CSW.

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In the past, delegates met with Norma Cruz, the recipient of the Woman of Courage award, Sandra Moran, Guatemalan politicians, and US Embassy staff. It's a 9-day intense and inspiring event.

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