62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the United Nations’ largest gathering on gender equality and women’s rights and is 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.

The 62nd session of the Commission, from 12 to 23 March 2018, focuses on the priority theme of “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”. Participants will deliberate on the key issues that significantly impact gender equality and the empowerment of all rural women and girls. These will range from how to ensure their adequate living standards with increased access to land and productive assets, decent work, infrastructure and technology, education and health, including their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and end all forms of violence and harmful practices. The forum will be an opportunity to provide concrete suggestions on how to empower rural women and girls, making the promise of “leaving no one behind” of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a reality.

The review theme of this CSW62 is “Women in the media”, bringing timely discussions on women’s participation in and access to the media, as well as to information and communications technologies. Sexual harassment at the workplace and online, lack of representation, gender pay gap and many other current issues are expected to come up in the discussions and side events.

For complete details, please see:

• In focus: UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62)
• Procedural information: CSW 62 (2018)
• Press release: As global mobilization intensifies on women’s rights, UN’s largest meeting on gender equality begins