The Commission on the Status of Women is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It is the principal global policy-making body dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and women's empowerment worldwide.

Dear Members,

The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59/Beijing+20) will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015. We have started the nomination process last week. The final date for the nominations is 07. December.2014. 

Dear members,

I would like to inform you that if you have applied to be a delegate in CSW59, please register to the Forum (please visit for more information: www.ngocsw.org).