Commission on the Status of Women

Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being supported by the United Nations to begin small businesses such as tailoring (file photo).
UNDP DRC

Gender equality means business, Secretary-General tells corporate leaders

16 March 2021
Women

The UN Secretary-General has urged corporate leaders to achieve gender equality, highlighting the benefits for the private sector and society at large. 

In Niger, farmer-pastoralist conflicts were significantly reduced by empowering women and youth as peacebuilders in the conflict-prone regions. More than 350 community groups ‘Dimitra clubs’ established in 60 villages.
© PBF/Marie Doucey/2019

Latest session of UN women’s commission focuses on equality in public life

12 March 2021
Women

Setting a global roadmap for achieving full equality at decision-making tables is among the objectives of the 65th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which opens in New York on Monday. 

Generations of progress stands to be lost on women and girls' empowerment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ILO

Generations of progress for women and girls could be lost to COVID pandemic, UN chief warns

31 August 2020
Women

Highlighting the disproportionate and devastating socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally, The UN chief António Guterres called on Monday for a major push to prevent “years, even generations” worth of progress on women’s empowerment, from being lost to the pandemic. 

A high-level event on “Women in Power” was held in the General Assembly hall as part of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 12 March 2019.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Political power of women suffering ‘serious regression’, General Assembly President warns

12 March 2019
Women

There has been a “serious regression” in the political power of women across the world in recent years, UN General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa told delegates to the annual summit of women activists at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

Civil Society Representatives Mary Fatiya (South Sudan) and Muniba Mazari (Pakistan) address the Commission on the Status of Women held in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters.
UN Women/Ryan Brown

Annual UN women activists’ summit opens with focus on services, infrastructure

11 March 2019
Women

A wheelchair-bound Pakistani mother who yearned to visit a park without worrying about ramp access, and a young South Sudanese woman who dreams of having affordable health care, were among the speakers opening the United Nation’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s rights on Monday.