What is the committee of women’s status and why is it important?

In March of each year, the annual United Nations Committee on Women’s Status (CSW) meets to address inequality, violence and wide -ranging discrimination that women still face all over the world.

Here are five things that must be known about the Women’s Status Committee:

1. 80 years of making change

The work of the committee began days after Mrs. Roosevelt read an open message addressed to the world’s women during the opening meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946.

Mrs. Roosevelt invited “The governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to play a more effective role in national and international affairs, and women who are aware of their opportunities to progress and participate in peace and reconstruction work as it has declared during times of war and resistance.”

The United Nations Economic and Social Council immediately established a sub -committee. Its six members – China, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, France, India, Lebanon and Poland – were assigned to assess “problems related to the situation of women” to advise the United Nations Commission for Human Rights.

From the beginning, calls for action emerged, including giving priority to political rights, “as it is not possible to make significant progress without it”, as well as recommendations to make improvements in the civil, educational, social and economic fields, according to the first report of the Sub -Committee, which also called for a United Nations Women’s Conference “to enhance the program.”

By June 1946, the Women’s Settlement Committee, one of the sub -bodies affiliated with the Economic and Social Council, has officially become. From 1947 to 1962, the Women’s Settlement Committee focused on setting standards and drafting international agreements to change discriminatory legislation and promoting global awareness of women’s issues.

2. The conclusion of historical international agreements

Returning to the first days of the committee, its increasing membership contributed to some of the widely agreed international agreements in the history of the United Nations. Here are some of them:

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948: With the assistance of Mrs. Roosevelt, Chairman of the Advertising Drafting Committee, the Women’s Placement Committee succeeded in objecting to the “men” as a synonym for humanity and presented a new and more comprehensive language in the final version adopted by the General Assembly.
• Declaration of the elimination of discrimination against women, 1967: The efforts made to unify the standards related to women’s rights led to the demand of the General Assembly of the Women’s Plasation to formulate the advertisement.
• Agreement to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW), 1979: The Women’s Placement Committee has drafted the legally binding instrument.
• Announcement and curriculum Begin, 1995: The Women’s Placement Committee had a pivotal role in adopting the leading advertisement, which is still a major global political document on gender equality.

3. More countries, more needs

With the increasing membership of the United Nations and the increase in evidence during the sixties that women are not affected by poverty, the Women’s Placement Committee focused on the needs in societal and rural development, agricultural work, family planning, and scientific and technological progress. The committee also encouraged the United Nations system to expand technical assistance to enhance women’s advancement, especially in developing countries.

In 1975, the United Nations announced the international year for women and held the First World Women’s Conference, which was held in Mexico. In 1977, the United Nations officially recognized the International Women’s Day, which is celebrated annually on March 8.

In 2010, after years of negotiations, the General Assembly adopted a decision that merges the relevant departments and departments of the United Nations Women, which continues to cooperate closely with the Women’s Settlement Committee.

4. Treating new challenges

It addresses the annual courses of the Women’s status and evaluate emerging issues in addition to progress and gaps in implementing the Begin’s work curriculum. Then member states agree on other steps to accelerate progress.

The committee dealt with challenges such as climate change, gender -based violence, and ensuring full women’s participation in decision -making and sustainable development strategies.

The Women’s Status Committee annually sends its agreed conclusions to the Economic and Social Council to take action.

The Women’s Status Committee also contributes to the follow -up of the 2030 sustainable development plan to accelerate gender equality and empower women, with the aim of reaching all women and not leaving anyone behind the knees.

5. Converting words into verbs

The solutions to ending women’s poverty are widely recognized, from investing in policies and programs that address gender inequality and the promotion of women’s agency and their leadership to bridge gender gaps in employment.

Doing this would come out more than 100 million women and a girl of poverty, create 300 million jobs, and enhance the per capita GDP by 20 percent in all regions.

The 2025 (CSW69#) session will be held at the United Nations headquarters from 10 to 21 March, in the presence of its 45 members and thousands of participants from all over the world.

The main focus will focus on reviewing and evaluating the implementation of the Bijin advertisement and curriculum, which will include the evaluation of the current challenges that affect its implementation, the achievement of gender equality, the empowerment of women and its contribution to the full investigation of the 2030 plan.