CSW: Advancing women’s rights since 1946

At current rates, it will take almost another three centuries to bring about equality for women and girls.  

Hobbled by persistent inequalities, about 383 million women and girls live in extreme poverty, and every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family.

These are some of the reasons that the CSW continues to be relevant and has been a vitally important fixture on the United Nations calendar ever since it was…