The 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) will take place in March 2021. NGO advocacy work starts months ahead, and we have already submitted several written statements to UN Women. The priority theme of CSW65 is women in leadership and decision-making, as well as ending violence against women, to achieve women's empowerment. FAWCO was the lead organization...

By Sue England, IWC Munich and Tia McLaughlin, AW Berkshire & Surrey     

On August 31, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a town hall meeting on the issue of Women and the UN. Normally, this meeting would have taken place during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March in NYC, but CSW was cancelled this year due to...

The CSW64 Bureau convened on Monday March 9 for a procedural meeting. All side events and NGO CSW Forum parallel events were cancelled. The opening session is available to view on UN Web TV. 

At the March 9 session, the Commission members voted unanimously to ratify a political declaration reiterating support for the gender equality action plan adopted at the...

Due to concerns about the Coronavirus (COVID-19), CSW64 was drastically scaled down: from a two-week session with hundreds of ancillary discussions, interactive meetings and roundtable discussions, and an NGO CSW Forum with over 500 scheduled events, to a two-hour procedural meeting.

Sixteen FAWCO members from Berlin, Bern, Denmark, London, Paris, Perth, The Philippines, Rome, Surrey, Vienna and the US had...

Joan Evers (AWC Madrid), a member of the FAWCO Environment Team, attended COP25 and interviewed Dr. Lara Lazaro, a Spanish environmental economist. You can read the interview here. 

By Joan Evers, AWC Madrid

Spain’s capital hosting this meeting was a last-minute change. Santiago, Chile had been scheduled to welcome the world’s climate delegates until unrest in the country caused the Chilean President to back out. And even Chile hosting the event was not the original plan as Brazil had been first slated to do so, but also backed...