What is the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women?
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is an official Commission of the United Nations which focuses on the rights and empowerment of women and global gender equality. It's an intergovernmental body consisting of 45 Member State governments of the UN. As the Secretariat of the CSW, UN Women (an official UN agency), supports all aspects of the Commission's work.
Each year, the annual CSW session, which takes place for two weeks in March in New York, focuses on a specifc topic related to gender equality known as the "priority theme." At the end of the two weeks, an outcome document is produced on the theme.
For more information, visit the official UN CSW website.