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.
On Tuesday, March 22, UN Women held a Civil Society Briefing with the facilitator for the Agreed Conclusions, Ambassador of Germany to the UN Antje Leendertse. Ambassador Leendertse said there is an optimistic and constructive spirit in the negotiations. She told us (not direct quotes, but closely following the transcription of the briefing):
CSW66 is the first time the Commission...
Every year, in addition to the Priority Theme, CSW reviews progress on the Priority Theme from five years before. At CSW66, the Review Theme is Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work (agreed conclusions of the sixty-first session). On March 15, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and IT for Change co-sponsored a parallel event on the Review Theme, to look into how the digital world of work...
The North America and Europe Caucus (NA/E Caucus) for CSW is a group of activists who are interested in equality for women and girls and work at the UN to ensure that this is progressed.
At the first NA/E Caucus meeting during CSW66 on March 17th, 2022, over 125 participated during the call.
- The establishment of public delegates within the...
By Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin and FAUSA
March 15, 2022
“Conversation Circles are one of the most popular aspects of the annual NGO CSW Forum. This year, for CSW66 and the NGO CSW66 Forum, all Conversation Circles will address the intersections between selected themes and climate justice in alignment with the CSW66 priority theme. Participants from around the globe and all...
