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The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a United Nations intergovernmental body dedicated to the promotion of gender, equality and the empowerment of women. The outcomes and recommendations of each CSW session are forwarded to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for follow-up.

This year CSW68 will take place from 11-22 March, during which representatives of UN Member States, civil society organisations and UN entities will gather at the UN’s New York headquarters. CSW’s 2024 priority theme is “accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective,” while the review theme is "social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls".

APC’s Women’s Rights Programme has actively engaged in CSW for the past 30 years as it has been one of the most important spaces for international advocacy on women’s rights, for drafting international legal instruments and for contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One key participation objective of APC this year us to help re-frame the priority theme away from "addressing poverty" and "strengthening institutions" to the shifting of power structures as well as respect for and full realisation of women’s and people’s rights. Some other objectives include advocating solidarity with Palestine and building awareness of the Feminist Principles of the Internet as a framework for women’s rights, sexual rights and feminist movements to engage with digital technologies from their perspectives and locations.

The APC network will be actively participating in various sessions at CSW68 as well as at side and parallel events. We invite you to browse the schedule below and add sessions of interest to your calendar.

Monday, 11 March

How is backlash weakening institutional contexts for gender justice globally?

08:30 – 14:00 EST (13:30 – 19:00 UTC) / Online

WOUGNET participating

Collective action to address technology-facilitated gender-based violence: A call to action

09:00 – 14:00 EST (14:00 – 19:00 UTC) / Japan Society 

APC co-organising

[Invitation only]

Tuesday, 12 March

Responding to anti-rights developments in multilateral and regional spaces 

14:00 – 18:00 EST (19:00 – 23:00 UTC) / Blue Gallery

APC co-organising, AWID participating

[Invitation only]

Wednesday, 13 March

WHRDs and feminist perspectives on challenging economic oppression and poverty

08:30 – 10:00 EST (13:30 – 15:00 UTC) / Salvation Army

APC co-organising

[Register here]

Our Voices Our Futures – ARTivism in action at the CSW

12:00 – 20:00 EST (17:00 – 01:00 UTC) / Blue Gallery

APC co-organising 

Thursday, 14 March

Perpetrator research and evaluation framework workshops

08:30 – 12:00 EST (13:30 – 17:00 UTC) / Scandinavia House and Online 

TEDIC co-organising

[Register here]

Our Voices Our Futures – ARTivism in Action at the CSW

12:00 – 20:00 EST (17:00 – 01:00 UTC) / Blue Gallery

APC co-organising

Gendered digital experiences: Women’s resilience through a global pandemic

14:00 – 16:00 EST (19:00 – 21:00 UTC) / UNDP Office

APC participating

Friday, 15 March

Women’s rights and choices in a digital world: Why we need a feminist Global Digital Compact (Parallel Event)

09:00 – 12:00 EST (14:00 – 17:00 UTC) / Scandinavia House

Derechos Digitales, Pollicy, APC and other partners co-organising

Women’s rights and choices in a digital world: Why we need a feminist Global Digital Compact (High-Level Side Event)

13:00 – 15:00 EST (18:00 – 20:00 UTC) / Scandinavia House

Derechos Digitales, Pollicy, APC and other partners co-organising

Tuesday, 19 March

Finance feminist tech for the gender equal world we want

16:30 EST (21:30 UTC) / Church Center for the United Nations 

Numun Fund and APC co-organising.