Commission on the Status of Women
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, meets every year in March to consider what needs to be done to improve the lives and the political situation of women around the world. Member states, women’s rights organizations, as well as UN entities gather to discuss the progress and gaps in implementing the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the blueprint for gender equality. Running parallel to the official sessions, a two-week NGO CSW Forum offers civil society from around the world opportunities to discuss issues pertaining to women and girls, network, and share strategies/best practices. As an organization in special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, ICUUW contributes to the CSW by actively participating and hosting parallel events at the NGO CSW Forum.
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ICUUW Spring Seminar - March 2025
Speaking Up for Liberal Religious Values at the UN During the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
March 15-16, 2025 in New York City
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This year, the annual meeting of the CSW took place in person at the UN headquarters in New York and virtually from March 11-22, 2024. The priority theme of the 68th session of CSW (CSW68) was “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.” As in previous years, ICUUW had a delegation in New York attending the events in person and hosted two virtual Parallel Events at the CSW NGO Forum.
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, meets every year in March to consider what needs to be done to improve the lives and the political situation of women around the world. Member states, women’s rights organizations, as well as UN entities gather to discuss the progress and gaps in implementing the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the blueprint for gender equality.
The 67th session of the CSW (CSW67), March 6-17, 2023, was held both virtually and in-person. This year's priority theme was "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls."
11 ICUUW representatives attended CSW67 in person.
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By Marjorie Davidson, ICUUW Delegate at CSW66, USA
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets every March around the United Nations offices in New York City. In pre-COVID-19 times, CSW brought thousands of women to New York for reports, workshops, and networking; in 2021 and 2022, CSW shifted from in-person meetings to virtual formats. In March 2022, more than 15 women from our IWC community attended virtual sessions and events related to CSW.
My head is spinning as I reflect on the many different sessions I attended at the 66th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66). Yet two items particularly resonated with me this year: one was the prominence of the topic of cyber violence against women and girls, including ICUUW's "Misogyny Goes Viral: Protecting Women from Digital Violence" presentation, and the Global Partnership that has been established to address the problem. In a world where 85 per cent of women with access to the internet reported witnessing online violence against other women, and 38 per cent have experienced it personally. This is a critical theme: End Online Violence.
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Carmen Capriles, whose home is in La Paz, Bolivia, became involved with the United Nations as a young adult. With academic expertise in agriculture, she set out to learn about and then engage with the UN on climate and land use policies. Almost twenty years later, she generously offered to teach us in IWC how to make the same journey from learning to influence, in the crowded world of advocacy at the UN.
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The UN-sponsored Generation Equality Forum in Mexico City, held online from March 29 to 31, 2021, unveiled the Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality. The plan – to be launched at the follow-up Forum in Paris at the end of June – represents the draft roadmap to speed up progress on gender equality.
The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women has monitored progress since the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, but it has not given the Women's Movement new energy. A new Forum, with meetings in both the Global South and the Global North, could re-energize the Movement and also engage younger women.
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Overview of the Sixty-Fifth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65)
15 to 26 March 2021
By Genia Peterson, ICUUW Representative at CSW65
More than 25,000 individuals from around the world registered to virtually attend the 700 civil society-led parallel events. In addition, they could also participate in 200 events sponsored by UN member states.
The priority theme of the CSW65 was women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.