Carol Strametz of AWC Hamburg reported: 

I had the pleasure and privilege of attending three days of CSW60, the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at United Nations Headquarters in New York. FAWCO had a delegation of 14 members, several of whom were present throughout the session.

In preparation for CSW60, FAWCO joined with other...

Reflections on CSW at the UN in March 2016 by Angela Anderson, AWC Shanghai

I left the Interim Meeting in Seeheim on Monday morning and rode to the Frankfurt airport on the shuttle bus with several conference attendees. Region 11 was well represented on the bus (China, India and Australia). Instead of heading back to Shanghai, I took a direct...

UN CSW: Rozanne VanRie (AWC Antwerp)

After a week long stint at the two week long UN Commission on the Status of Women this past March,, we were all asked to write a report about our experience in order to share with our colleagues at FAWCO.

So, after a my trans-Atlantic trip home to Belgium, I took a long hot...

On March 24, the final day of CSW60, the NGO Committee on Migration in NY, along with the Organization for Early Childhood Education, UNHCR, FAWCO and other organizations co-sponsored an important event: Empowering Syrian Refugee Women and Children for a Better Future: Challenges and Innovative Solutions in Early Childhood Development. The flyer for the event lists the impressive line-up of speakers.