Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality, women’s rights and the empowerment of women. CSW plays a lead role in the monitoring and review of implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
With Agenda 2030, there is an opportunity to bolster the achievement of the BPfA. At the same time, the WMG is clear that the full BPfA should not be subsumed or diminished by Agenda 2030.
During the annual CSW in New York, the Women’s Major Group typically holds open meetings and strategy meetings of the WMG, as well as hosts outreach and content-oriented side events related to the core work of the WMG and its links to the CSW theme. Recent themes have related to sustainable development: Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development (2016); Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (2015); and The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges (2012).
CSW 61, Side Event: Who Cares? Women, Labor, Justice & the SDG
"In 2017, the changing world of work is wrapped up in issues of gender equality, global economic systems, the care economy, climate change, human rights and access to resources.This event highligh [...]
The sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women – CSW 61
The sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017. Themes: Priority theme: Women’s economic em [...]
The second Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2)
Members of the Women’s Major Group presented their key issues on COP21 Paris Agreement at UNEP OECPR 2 meeting in Nairobi. Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition and WMG Organizing Partner) presente [...]
CSW60: Multi stakeholders Forum
Members of the Women's Major Group presented their statements at the Multi-stakeholders Forum, in preparation for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60), organized by the [...]
Side Event on How to Hold Your Government’s Feet to the Fire: Accountability for Agenda 2030
This session, led by the Organising Partners of the Women’s Major Group, is intended to bring together women from different regions around the world to discuss and review the challenges and progre [...]