On Monday, 14 March, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) turned the focus of the United Nations towards ...
CSW60 (2016)
The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016.
Following the agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, CSW60 focused on:
Priority theme: Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development
Review theme: The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (agreed conclusions from the fifty-seventh session)
Following the agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the next Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) ...
Just before midnight, on the 24 March, governments, civil society and other organisations celebrated the adoption ...
Image: SI International President Yvonne Simpson, SISWP President Carolyn Hudson, SI Erdenet, ...
"Tuesday 15 March was the first of the NGO CSW NY Committee important briefings run jointly with UN Women. This ...
Monday 14 March
"Well that beautiful weather didn’t last long! Woke up to grey skies and rain which hasn’t ...
by Pat Black Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy
"Sunday saw us at the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day ...
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