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Commission on the Status of Women
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As far back as 1945, in the Preamble of the UN Charter, the principle of equality between men and women was reaffirmed.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1946 to prepare reports and to make recommendations to ECOSOC on promoting women's rights in a broad range of fields as well as to develop recommendations and proposals for action on urgent problems.
The Commission has organized the UN Conferences on Women and it has been mandated to review and appraise the outcome of these conferences assessing and advancing their implementation.
Members of the Commission are 45 government experts chosen according to a geographical representation. They meet in regular sessions once a year.
Documentation
The individual documents from the Commission on the Status of Women carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.6 Commission number 6 = Commission on the Status of Women |
-/year |
-/current number |
Ex. E/CN.6/2000/3 Economic and Social Council, Commission on the Status of Women, year 2000, document 3 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission and full text documents and reports can be accessed from the official web page of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Documents in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
The Commission on the Status of Women submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as Reports at the ECOSOC official Web page.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.