Purchasing sexual services (prostitution) was made illegal in Sweden in 2000. Norway and Iceland have since instituted the same laws and France and Ireland are looking to enact them shortly.
Commission on the Status of Women
The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), part of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), promotes gender equality and the advancement of women. Its charge is to measure progress towards equality and highlight challenges, set standards and formulate concrete policies to promote equality and women’s empowerment, and encourage mainstreaming of the gender perspective in all UN activities worldwide.
FAWCO is a member of the NGO Committees on the Status of Women (NGO CSWs) in NY, Geneva and Vienna. FAWCO members and UN Representatives regularly attend the annual CSW in New York. You can read blogs by members of FAWCO's delegations to CSW.
FAWCO signs on to Written and Oral Statements submitted to UN Women for consideration by CSW, joining our partner women's NGOs with consultative status to ECOSOC. You can read these statements on the Advocacy page.
| Key Links | |
| UN CSW | http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw |
| NGO CSW New York | www.ngocsw.org |
| NGO CSW Geneva | www.ngocsw-geneva.ch/ |
| NGO CSW Vienna | https://ngocswvienna.org/ |
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Purchasing sexual services (prostitution) was made illegal in Sweden in 2000. Norway and Iceland have since instituted the same laws and France and Ireland are looking to enact them shortly.
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Today, the Working Group on Girls, a coalition of over 80 national and international NGOs with representation at the United Nations, held the first Girl’s Tribunal on Violence. The Tribunal involved girl activists from around the world who testified about their personal experiences witnessing violence in their communities, schools and in the media.
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The 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women was officially opened in the General Assembly of the United Nations today. Webcasts of this session and many of the CSW events at the UN are available by webcast on http://www.unwomen.org/news-events/in-focus/CSW57/webcasts/.