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/ |
FAWCO had an impressive delegation of members from around the world at CSW63.
Anette Arnold (AWC Berlin)
Karen Boeker (AWC Denmark)
Karen Castellon (AWC Berlin) and her daughter Claire
Hari Kitching (FAUSA)
Dorothy Wagle (Mumbai)
Yolanda Henry (FAUSA)
Claire Mathijsen (AAWE Paris)
Elizabeth Tunoi (Claire's Kenyan colleague)
Honorary FAWCO Member Amanda Lane (CRP) and her daughter
Members of the FAWCO UN...
The poster for the NGO Forum event on March 14, 2019.
Thanks to Yolanda Henry (FAUSA), Dottie Wagle (AIWC Mumbai), Claire Mathijsen (AAWE Paris) and her partner Elizabeth Tunoi, and Amanda Lane (CRP Jordan) for being part of this important panel discussion.
By Karen Boeker (AWC Denmark)
CSW 63 was an inspiring and encouraging experience – again. It started on Sunday, March 10 with the NGO Forum's Consultation Day, which was for me the perfect start into the week.
One of the events at CSW63 was a call to join the fight against child marriage in Bangladesh. It is a movement based...
March 14, 2019
Realizing the 2030 Agenda requires mobilizing resources, talents and goodwill. People around the world are stepping up to the challenge, making contributions, filling gaps and providing services for people in need, leaving no one behind. When governments don't provide adequate social services, people fall through the cracks, and may not be able to access needed services. Why? Political...
The rooms are always standing-room-only crowded, so we were happy to have seats for this event.
Laurie Richardson, Melissa Ruggles, Karen Boeker, Hari Kitching (L-R)
Melissa, Karen and Hari
By Melissa Ruggles, AWC Amsterdam
March 18, 2019
As I type this, I’m looking out over the glimmering East River to the Long Island skyline—a view that begs one to reflect. Laurie Richardson, FAWCO UN Liaison, and I just attended another session at the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) at UN headquarters in New York City. We...
Lopa Banerjee, Chief of the Civil Society Section of UN Women, spoke on March 13 at an NGO Morning Briefing at CSW62. She was eloquent and energetic as usual. She said that "Civil Society Organizations are our existential partners, the constituency for accountability."
If we don’t take actions to empower rural women and girls, they will be left behind. By age 4,
From Christine Humphreys and Karen Boeker who attended a session on HerStory at CSW62
The HerStory Campaign works with grassroots partners in 27 countries to listen to, amplify and champion the voices of girls through innovative after-school programming designed to cultivate modern literacy skills and foster self-advocacy. Check out their InfoCard and video!
