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/ |
Laurie's Guide to Selected Events at CSW66
CSW66 Orientation Session #1 Slide Presentation by My-Linh Kunst
CSW66 Orientatioon Session #2 Slides
Secretary General’s Report on CSW66
“Zero Draft” of CSW66 Agreed Conclusions
NGO CSW NY Advocacy Training Guide...
The SDGs: The UN's 2030 Development Agenda
You should be familiar with SDG #5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The stand-alone goal on gender equality was a major victory for women in the SDGs. SDG #5 Targets relate to violence against women and girls, trafficking, early marriage, FGM, recognition of unpaid and domestic work, increasing women...
The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. CSW, a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), was established in 1946. CSW is instrumental in promoting women’s rights and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment...
I highly recommend this recent article in Foreign Affairs magazine (by Erica Chenowith and Zoe Marks) on the right-wing backlash against gender equality activists.
"In recent years, authoritarian leaders have launched a simultaneous assault on women’s rights and democracy that threatens to roll back decades of progress on both fronts."
"Internationally, a multinational coalition is needed to explicitly reject patriarchal...