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/ |
On March 16, 2021, at a virtual Townhall Meeting for civil society as part of CSW65, UN Secretary-General Guterres said that women must be “front and centre” of the pandemic recovery as a matter of economics, efficiency, effectiveness and social resilience. “Male-dominated teams will come up with male-dominated solutions... We cannot go back to the failed man-made policies that have...
On October 23, a webinar was hosted by the NGO Women's Rights & Gender Equality Caucus, Australia and Asia-Pacific Women's Watch (APWW). Four female leaders shared their observations of how COVID-19 has impacted women's livelihoods in the Asia Pacific region.
Yukiko Oda from Japan Women's Watch covered the East Asia region. Despite the...
To create the feeling of interaction during the virtual UN Women Town Hall Meeting with Civil Society (October 19, 2020), the organizers used Mentimeter, an interesting tool which was new to me. Participants were invited to respond to two questions using one word, and the responses were represented graphically. The words which were most often used were displayed larger. This...
What will people say 25 years from now say about what happened in 2020? With over 600 people from around the world joining an online Town Hall Meeting on October 19, 2020, Lopa Bannerjee, Director of the UN Women Civil Society Division, opened with this thought-provoking question.
The first speaker was Asa Regner, Deputy Executive Director...
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...
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...
By Paula Daeppen (AWC Zürich)
The Beijing Platform for Action recognized the essential role of women in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns and in approaches to natural resource management, but in 1995, the urgent awareness of the devastating effects of climate change were not as evident as they are today. Today women are among the...