A global policy-making body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), dedicated exclusively to the promotion of gender equality and the advancement of women. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide. Read more: About CSW, Documentation, NGO Participation
CSW 2012
The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 27 February to 9 March 2012. Representatives from Member States, UN entities, and NGOs in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) from all regions of the world will attend the session. The two-week session will include a high-level round table, interactive dialogues and panels, and parallel events.
The 2012 session will focus on the following key areas:
• Priority Theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges
• Review Theme: Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women
• Emerging Issue: Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality
For the results of CSW 2011, click here:
http://www.unwomen.org/csw/csw55