Sarah W

Welcome to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women committee sessions of the Schoolhouse Model United Nations 2025! Schoolhouse MUN is an online Model United Nations event organized by a team of volunteers from schoolhouse.world. Delegates will have the opportunity to represent different countries in five distinct committees of the United Nations. This experience will enhance their understanding of current world issues and improve their public speaking, collaboration, and leadership skills. Agenda: Identifying and combatting gender apartheid and the systemic segregation of women Investigating gender apartheid, its impact, and the ways through which it is facilitated, and creating strategies to counter the oppression of women across the world Chair: Sarah W Overview of the Committee’s Agenda: Banned from public spaces. Prohibited from most job opportunities. Forbidden from pursuing an education at a higher level. These are only some of the countless injustices that women still face in certain parts of the world today. Despite the many advances that have been made as society has progressed, gender inequality still runs rampant all over the world in ways big and small. Although in some places it’s subtle, an undercurrent of society, in others it’s systemic, embedded into the law. Enforced by those in power, those who should be upholding the responsibility of maintaining the wellbeing of their people. This is gender apartheid, gender-based economic and social discrimination enforced through physical and legal practices, and its impact is devastating, affecting mental health and economies and so much more. The world cannot stand by and watch as gender apartheid continues to oppress women; we must take action. Your responsibility, dear delegate, is to investigate the reach of gender apartheid across the world, and to engage in thoughtful debate in the pursuit of creating solutions to this debilitating crisis. In the words of Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, “no one should ever be permitted to violate, segregate, silence or exclude people because of their gender.” Action must be taken, and it must be taken now. Delegates, are you ready to bring justice to the women shackled by the chains of gender apartheid? Main series: https://schoolhouse.world/series/55560 Please note that each delegate must attend a minimum of three committee sessions to be eligible for a participation certificate. You are also welcome to join as an audience member!

Welcome!! We will study together using the Pomodoro technique (25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of break)! 🍅 In addition to studying, every week at the end of the session on Sunday, I'll feature a song of the week, where I'll present a song, after which we can discuss it:). There will also be a form for learners to suggest songs that they either want me to present or want to present themselves, so there may be songs of the week on some Wednesdays or Thursdays too! 🎵 During the 25 minutes of work, we will all stay on mute; I will also not be playing music during the work period because I find that, personally, even the most chill music can become distracting at times. Turning your video on is completely optional but suggested as a way for you to really concentrate on your work. 🧠 During break, we can unmute and chat about what we did in the past 25 minutes to foster a productive and encouraging environment! 🌱 Activities that participants can do during sessions are not restricted to just studying, as long as participants are not scrolling on Instagram or the like; these activities can be anything that you consider productive, from planning activities for your school club to finally practicing your instrument because your lesson is tomorrow! 🎻 I am certified in many different topics, but for the sake of maintaining a study space where everyone can concentrate on what they are doing, please do not ask any work-related questions in the session. Instead, the Schoolhouse.world subworld help channels are always a great place for you to get help with your questions! 😊 Sessions will not be scheduled too far into the future to avoid running into unforeseeable scheduling conflicts.