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.
By Sallie Chaballier (AAWE Paris)
"We have everything we need already on paper, we just need to implement it! The 1995 Beijing Platform was a turning point in looking at women and climate and the interlinkages with environmental issues." Jeannette Gurung, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on women and...
By Tara Scott (AW Central Scotland)
The UN brings into focus issues which need to be discussed, analysed and resolved, as they are affecting people on a global level. The Beijing+25 Regional Review meeting was focused on the current status of women. The consensus is that while progress has been made during the last 25 years, there is still a...
By Rhonda Staudt (AWC Berlin)
October 29-30, 2019, UN Geneva
The Beijing+25 UNECE Regional Review Meeting provided an exceptional forum to review the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) in particular SDG 5...
By Rhonda Staudt (AWC Berlin)
28 October 2019, Geneva
Approximately 500 civil society stakeholders from across the UNECE region gathered to strengthen civil society cooperation and their role in UN processes on Beijing+25, and the interlinkages with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Istanbul Convention and Agenda...
