by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 14, 2019
Photo from the ¡Que las liberen ya! campaign launch. Representatives from the United States are working on the issue of the exclusion of visas to women attending the CSW. They generated a petition which I signed. I have written asking for an electronic version of...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 13, 2019
Photo: Haydee Castillo. This morning I walked into the NGO briefing at the exact moment that they were calling for a volunteer translator for a Nicaraguan woman, Haydee Castillo, a human rights defender. So I walked directly to the podium. (There is a squadron of...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 12, 2019
A roomful of delegates waiting for the Secretary General who was very late. Lucina Kathmann, board member of Chicago Network, represents PEN International, an NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, at the 63rd meeting of the Commission on the Status of...
by Lucina Kathmann | Mar 11, 2019
Lucina Kathmann, PEN:International CSW 63, the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, opened today. During these two weeks official delegates from 45 countries will take up the priority theme, “Social protection systems, access to public...
by Lucina Kathmann | May 1, 2018
Left Behind or Approaching the Tipping Point? by Lucina Kathmann With Jennifer Clement, PEN International’s President, featured on a UNESCO sponsored panel “Safe Journalists” as one of the events at the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status...
