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/ |
After Secretary General António Guterres’ words at the beginning of the Town Hall meeting during CSW66 on Wednesday, March 16, my thoughts are still spinning anxiously two days later.
Listening to his opening remarks (available in full here), all the important aspects on the Status of Women are touched upon; more is not possible in the...
FAWCO UN Rep Tara Scott was a delegate to COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. Tara was deeply impressed by the many indigenous women who talked about their lives, their communities, and their work protecting the environment. She put together a presentation with beautiful artwork, photos of several indigenous women, and links to articles,
FAWCO UN Reps Erica Higbie and Pam Perraud and UN Liaison Laurie Richardson attended a virtual briefing on CSW66 by representatives of the US Mission, the White House Gender Policy Council, State Department Office of Global Women’s Affairs, and Department of Health and Human Services on March 10, 2022.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield began her remarks acknowledging what is on all...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment David R. Boyd spoke at the virtual CSW66 Consultation Day organized by NGO CSW Geneva and NGO CSW Vienna. Our Consultation Day theme was based on the Human Rights Council Resolution on The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment (HRC48/13)
David Boyd and Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human...
The UN Commission on the Status of Women is the CSW. The 2022 meetings are the 66th Session of the Commission, therefore CSW66.
NGO CSW refers to NGO Committees on the Status of Women, made up of NGOs like FAWCO with consultative status with ECOSOC. There are NGO CSWs in NY, Geneva, Vienna, and four regional NGO CSWs: Africa, Latin...
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
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...
The second Generation Equality Forum (GEF) took place in Paris from June 30 to July 2, 2021. Close to 20 FAWCO members joined GEF events virtually, joining some 47,000 people online. Over 1,000 commitments were made to take concrete action to advance the women’s rights agenda around the world.
GEF, sponsored by the governments of Mexico and France, convened by...