CSW 66-2022
Find here:
- Advanced Agreed Conclusions, March 25, 2022
- Zero Draft, February 1, 2022
- Written Statement, signed, October 14, 2021
> Video about CSW by Dr. Catherine Bosshart, March 2019
News
Dr. Catherine Bosshart - May 11, 2022
NGO CSW/NY
Our April Monthly Meeting focused on the Methods of Work and the final CSW66 Agreed Conclusions as well as next steps for implementation and advocacy.
During the meeting, we heard from CSW experts from the UN, Member States, and civil society. We also split into breakout groups to discuss their experiences with CSW, namely what worked, what didn't, and what recommendations they have for moving forward.
CSW66 Outcomes Unpacked
Expert Roundtable Discussion
28 April 2022 | 1-3pm EDT Summary of Reflections
What worked
● Substantial engagement with Member States
● Focus on intersections of climate change and SRHR and gender and climate justice
● Advocacy and learning
● Virtual Engagement: Able to attend virtually - more accessible for some; People from all over the world able to attend, including girls/young women, who enjoyed the experience of engaging with the governments; Nice to meet people across the world; Creates great momentum
● Consultation Day in-person event
What didn’t work
● UN CSW process: Slow process. Siloed conversations. Confusing how everything functions, what to attend and what not to attend, difficult to choose. Lack of transparency & access to info during negotiations. Opposition within and between Member States, so difficult to get a consensus, Outcome is inevitably watered down.
● Missing from outcome document: Little about migration in the outcome document
● Including marginalized communities more: Global South not represented equally as Global North. Including indigenous, Global South, rural women, WHRDs more. Migrant voices.
● Technology/internet inaccessibility. Rural areas - lack of internet access - challenging in virtual context (but people
would have been able to come if not for COVID etc.)
● Virtual: Feeling of being in the room with other people was missing; Time zones were confusing; Financial/access challenges
model - missing in-person engagement.
● Virtual: Too much going on at the same time - crowded timetable, couldn’t get to all the ones I wanted to go to, not everything recorded, Platform was confusing - log in, register, add the event; Parallel Event organizers using their own virtual meeting accounts was confusing.
Recommendations
● Hybrid format going forward. Maintain hybrid format for those that can’t come to NY but allowing opportunity for in-person attendance/engagement as well. Keep the hybrid model. Better digital inclusion.
● More focus on culture and using culture as social change - have it be more prominent with digitization aspect
● Focusing on review theme and bringing in stronger accountability
● More specific target goals and measures
● More language justice. More translation/interpretation
● Need to secure more human rights spaces in CSW
● Going back to see what we can use, reexamine what we do have
● Use the same platform used during SDGs week - with 3 stages, each event has a stage.
One platform on the website.
● Considering regional challenges and advocacy
● UN Women to be more involved in the regional processes and facilitate more women’s
voices to be heard during the high-level sessions
● Need to continue conversation about climate and gender into all spheres of advocacy
● Have a CSO Agreed Conclusions document parallel to the official CSW one
February 27, 2022
Join the Regional Consultation Days!
Hosted by our sister NGO CSWs in the Regions, you won't want to miss the five Regional Consultation Days!
Register for each Regional Consultation Day below:
- Africa | 14 March @ 4am ET
- Arab States/MENA | 12 March @ 5am ET
- Asia Pacific | 11 March @ 10:30pm ET
- Geneva & Vienna | 12 March @ 10am ET
- Latin America & the Caribbean 13 March | 2pm ET
Join NGO CSW/NY's Consultation Day to officially kick off the NGO CSW66 Forum!
The program will feature a conversation between the CSW Chair and UN Women Executive Director; an informational panel on the CSW priority theme; feminist entertainment; and a celebration of NGO CSW/NY's 50th Anniversary!
Watch the live stream on the Youtube channel here.
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, January 15, 2022
As I am sure you have all heard by now, the Commission on the Status of Women 66 is taking place in hybrid format resp. mainly virtually. Even the access of our UN representatives to the UN in New York has been reduced to 3 at the moment, where it is normally 7 (including International President and UN Vice President) representatives can work. However, this is only the case in New York. In Geneva and Vienna we are represented with our normal numbers. No workshops organized by the member states (side events) will take place within the UN premises.
We will be able to organize so-called parallel workshops virtually. At the moment BPW International has registered 2 themes, as well as the Federation of the USA and Carol Hanlon, who always excels in business incubators and webinars. The two BPW International events have been accepted and will take place on the following dates:
- Economic Empowerment of Women through Public Procurement and Financial Inclusion - DATE & TIME: 3/16/22 4:00 PM
- Women's Innovative Responses to Climate Change - DATE & TIME: 3/18/22 4:00 PM EST
All BPW events will be summarised in the NGO CSW New York handbook.
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, December 17, 2021
Register for the NGO CSW66 Forum and get access to the Virtual Portal today!
> How To Register? Step-by-Step Guide (pdf)
Registration is free and open to the public! After you register, you will receive an email with a link to log into the Virtual Portal and set up your account.
The Forum will take place virtually from 13 to 25 March 2022, but the Virtual Portal is open to explore and familiarize yourself with! See other participants in the Portal and engage with them; explore samples of a Parallel Event page, an Exhibit Booth, and a Handbook Ad; and learn more about advocacy at the UN CSW. In the coming months more information and materials will continue to be uploaded for registrants to interact with!
For more information about registration and the NGO CSW66 Forum, read our FAQs!
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, November 15, 2021
The Commission on the Status of Women CSW 66 will take place virtually from March 14 to 26, 2022.
Please register yourself, there are no restrictions. That is the positive effect of a virtual meeting.
Until December 12, 2021 you can apply for a side event. The topic has to be in line with the priority or the review theme. Should you also work with another women's organization, plan a side event together and hand it in under both names. In any case, please inform the President’s Office, when you can successfully register a side event and let us know the date and the time. We will publish our events in the add of the handbook of NGO CSW New York and create a visual presence of BPW. Thank you very much.
July 8, 2021
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Themes & Bureau
May 25, 2021
The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women CSW 66 will take place from 14 to 25 March 2022.
- Priority theme: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes;
- Review theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work (agreed conclusions of the sixty-first session CSW61);
- Bureau
The Bureau of the Commission plays a crucial role in facilitating the preparation for, and in ensuring the successful outcome of the annual sessions of the Commission. Bureau members serve for two years. In 2002, in order to improve its work and ensure continuity, the Commission decided to hold the first meeting of its subsequent session, immediately following the closure of the regular session, for the sole purpose of electing the new Chairperson and other members of the Bureau (ECOSOC decision 2002/234).
The Bureau for the 66th session (2022) of the Commission on the Status of Women comprises the following members:
- H.E. Ms. Mathu Joyini (South Africa), Chair (African States Group)
- Ms. Pilar Eugenio (Argentina), Vice-Chair (Latin American and Caribbean States Group)
- H.E. Mr. Günter Sautter (Germany), Vice-Chair (Western European and Other States Group)
- Mr. Māris Burbergs (Latvia), Vice-Chair designate (Eastern European States Group)
- Ms. Hye Ryoung Song (Republic of Korea), Vice-Chair designate (Asia and Pacific States Group)
Documents
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, April 4, 2022
25 March 2022 ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION
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Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes
CSW 66 Agreed conclusions
1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women and stresses the need to further strengthen their implementation.
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, February 4, 2022
Commission on the Status of Women Sixty-sixth session
14 – 25 March 2022
Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes
Draft agreed conclusions
1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women. (Based on CSW61, 62, 63 and 65 AC, para 1)
2. The Commission reiterates that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, as well as other relevant conventions and treaties, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all women and girls, throughout their life course. (Based on CSW61, 62, 63 and 65 AC, para 2)
Dr. Catherine Bosshart, October 12, 2021
Opportunities for NGOs to address the Commission
Written statements
Written Statement for the Commission on the Status of Women
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by the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
We strongly advise the Bureau that experts and negotiators from agencies, ministries and civil society working on environment and climate change
are invited explicitly to join the CSW66 meetings to ensure horizontal coordination and capacity development on the topic. It is advisable that the Commission on the Status of Women develops a
communication strategy to ensure that findings and guidance from the Commission on the Status of Women reaches other United Nations mechanisms. More than ever, resilience building through mutual
support and solidarity, through strong prior networking and advanced investment of broad stakeholder platforms, is essential to face future challenges. Multilateralism and horizontal coordination
are crucial here. Women’s organizations that work with different ministries and agencies can be of assistance if timely involved and supported.
Videos
Chularat Israngkool Na Ayutthaya, Thailand
BPW International 1st VP - United Nations, 2021-2024
