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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Maggie's CSW65 Video Links

CSW Blogs 17 April 2021

By Maggie Palu (AW Aquitaine)

This has been a labor of love, and fairly time-consuming, because I’ve been watching some of the sessions again. Here are some links to recordings of meetings that I “attended" virtually.

Enhancing police and justice responses to gender-based violence against women: new tools and emerging challenges in times of the pandemic

Organizer: United Nations Office...

CSW65 Agreed Conclusions: Lowest Common Denominator

CSW Blogs 17 April 2021

The 65th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) came to a close on March 26 after pushback from regressive governments caused negotiations to stretch into the final day. The CSW65 Agreed Conclusions were adopted at the eleventh hour after a marathon of difficult negotiations. You can watch the Closing Session and hear Member States' statements...

“A Crisis with a Woman's Face”

CSW Blogs 17 April 2021

In his address at the opening of CSW65 on March 15, 2021, Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how deeply embedded gender inequality is in the world’s political, social and economic systems. The UN chief noted that women work in jobs that have been hard hit by the pandemic, and that women’s and girls’ unpaid care...

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