UN commission on women status kicks off annual session

By:Xinhua
update:March 13,2018

"We have a moral obligation as we begin our work," she stressed, calling on the commission to "do more and do better." Participants must be honest in recognizing shortcomings that had long impeded the progress of women and girls, and strive harder to reach the goals enshrined in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.

Against the backdrop of unprecedented global efforts for women's rights and gender equality, the UN CSW is the UN's largest gathering on gender equality and women's rights, and the single largest forum for UN member states, civil society organizations and other international actors to build consensus and commitment on policy actions on this issue.

UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said that "at the heart of leaving no one behind, is leaving no one out. One of the single most impactful contributions to achieving the 2030 Agenda would be to level inequalities for women and girls in rural areas. Significant progress for them is progress for the whole Agenda, and for the world."

Ahead of the CSW62, UN Women together with partners, organized regional consultations with ministers, gender equality authorities and civil society organizations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, and Arab states to help build consensus and set priorities towards the commission's outcome, which will be a set of action-oriented recommendations to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all rural women and girls.

The CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established on June 21, 1946.

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