Women’s Empowerment and its Link to Sustainable Development | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will attend the session.

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The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has created a resource guide for the CSW60, which contains:

Current information on CSW60: Women’s Empowerment and its link to Sustainable Development
Links to Commission on the Status of Women resources
FAQs on women and gender
Official UN documents on women and CSW historical documents
Conventions and international instruments related to gender
Databases and statistical resources
Selected books, reports and links to relevant websites

To learn more about CSW60, please click here.