CMU faculty attends UN Commission on Status of Women
While students at Central Michigan University were enjoying spring break, english faculty Maureen Eke was marching for women.
Eke was one of six American representatives chosen to attend the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which lasted from March 9 to March 20 in New York City for Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. WILPF is an organization that has dedicated itself to non-violent conflict resolution and gender equality since 1915.
"I'm optimistic that we will achieve gender equality," Eke said. "We are trying to transfer the world into one with no institutionalized gender oppression."
This was the 59th commission, which focused on evaluating the goals of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set the goal of achieving gender equality worldwide. Eke attended several sessions focusing on war, poverty, social justice and other pressing issues.
Eke operates the non-profit African Humanitarian Educational Research Association in Mount Pleasant, which she founded in 2010.
