To carry out the action program, the IAW appoints Commissions to work with specific topic areas.
Commission conveners are members of the Board with voting rights
The IAW currently has the following Commissions:
Commission on Climate Change
Convener: Natalie Kostus
Commission on Democracy
Convener: Anje Wiersinga
Members: Heleen Jansen
Commission on Health
Convener: Gudrun Haupter
Members: Ursula Nakamura-Stoecklin
Commission on Human Rights
Convener: Lyda Verstegen
Members: Marion Böker
Commission on Violence against Women
Convener: Signe Gissel Schmidt
Commission on Women and the Economy
Convener: Joanna Manganara
The economic recession following the financial crisis poses threats to gains in gender equality, poverty, in fact to all the Millennium goals. IAW has decided to implement capacity building on feminist economics of its members to enable them to undertake important actions on these issues, and we will prepare a side event on this topic in relation to the CSW 58 in New York 2014.
Commission on Peace
Conveners: Heide Schütz, Manju Kak, Esther Suter
Members: Marion Böker
Commission on Education
Convener: K.G. Vijayalakshmi
Commission on GDPR
Convener: Lene Pind
Members: Lyda Verstegen