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Commission on Woman

Remit

Generally speaking, the Commission:

  • promotes women’s rights in the fields of politics, economics, social, education and civil rights
  • makes recommendations to ECOSOC on urgent problems requiring immediate attention in relation to women’s rights
  • promotes the implementation of the principle of equal rights between men and women
  • is engaged in following up the Platform for Action developed by the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, which included:
    • women and poverty
    • education and training of women
    • women and health
    • violence against women
    • women and armed conflict
    • women and the economy
    • women in power and decision-making
    • institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
    • human rights of women
    • women and the media
    • women and the environment
    • the girl child
Established
1946
Current members
(state, date mandate expires – all mandates expire on 31 december)

latin american and caribbean states

  • Argentina
    • 2004
  • Bolivia
    • 2001
  • Brazil
    • 2003
  • Chile
    • 2003
  • Cuba
    • 2001
  • Dominican
    • 2003
  • Republic
    • 2002
  • Mexico
    • 2004
  • Peru
    • 2001
  • St Lucia
    • 2002

western european and other states

  • Belgium
    • 2003
  • Denmark
    • 2004
  • Germany
    • 2002
  • Italy
    • 2004
  • Netherlands
    • 2002
  • Turkey
    • 2004
  • United Kingdom
    • 2003
  • United States
    • 2004

eastern european states

  • Azerbaijan
    • 2001
  • Croatia
    • 2002
  • Lithuania
    • 2002
  • Russian Federation

african states

  • Benin
    • 2003
  • Burundi
    • 2002
  • Côte d’Ivoire
    • 2001
  • Egypt
    • 2002
  • Guinea
    • 2004
  • Lesotho
    • 2001
  • Malawi
    • 2003
  • Rwanda
    • 2001
  • Senegal
    • 2002
  • Sudan
    • 2001
  • Tunisia
    • 2004
  • United Republic of Tanzania
    • 2004
  • one vacancy

asian-pacific states

  • China
    • 2003
  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
    • 2002
  • India
    • 2001
  • Iran
    • 2004
  • Japan
    • 2003
  • Kyrgyzstan
    • 2001
  • Malaysia
    • 2002
  • Mongolia
    • 2004
  • Pakistan
    • 2001
  • Republic of Korea
    • 2001
  • Sri Lanka

reports to
ECOSOC
meets
Annually in New York for 2 weeks, usually in early March
un address

Division for the
Advancement of Women
DC2-1204
United Nations
New York
NY 10017
USA

submissions by
October
secretary
The Secretariat
room number
DC2-1204
telephone
00 1 212 963 8034
fax
00 1 212 963 3463
E-MAIL
daw@un.org
'FURTHER INFORMATION
website:http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw