Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs discusses all drug-related matters and adopts resolutions and decisions thereon. It brings substances under international control under the International Drug Control Conventions. The 69th session also features a large programme of side events and exhibitions.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
Access to decision-making remains one of the most persistent and structural barriers to the full realization of women's and girls' rights worldwide. Event organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN-Women at the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
This event examines how restrictions on education for women and girls in Afghanistan affect access to justice, gender equality, and long-term peace and security.
The side event will provide a high-level, multi-stakeholder platform to discuss concreteregulatory and policy responses to preventing and responding to cyberviolence against girls across the globe.
The event will spotlight country experiences, civil society innovations, and emerging initiatives on legislation and legal reform to identify a small set of actionable choices that can be taken forward now—strengthening a people-centred gender responsive and ensuring reforms are financed, monitored and accountable.
Side event organised by the Permanent Mission of Malta in the margins of CSW70 on empowering women in the nuclear field and strengthening men as allies in gender equality.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
The Seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) will take place from 9 to 19 March 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs discusses all drug-related matters and adopts resolutions and decisions thereon. It brings substances under international control under the International Drug Control Conventions. The 69th session also features a large programme of side events and exhibitions.
Virtual guest, Georgette Gagnon, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
The event, organized by Spain will be held during the 70th session of the CSW. It seeks to create a space for dialogue, learning, and the exchange of experiences with experts from different countries and institutions in order to take stock of the current situation, the challenges women face in institutional mechanisms, and the challenges that remain.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
Access to decision-making remains one of the most persistent and structural barriers to the full realization of women's and girls' rights worldwide. Event organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN-Women at the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
The Seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) will take place from 9 to 19 March 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
This session of the Goals Lounge will feature diverse perspectives from young leaders and influencers, highlighting their experiences, strategies and reflections on navigating leadership, digital spaces and gender-based challenges today.
The elimination of discriminatory legislation, social norms and practices is key to promoting gender equality. The CEDAW Convention (1979) serves as a transformative legal framework that obliges Member States to move beyond formal equality and achieve substantive equality by dismantling structural barriers.
This side-event will focus on gender-responsive policing practices, cooperation between law enforcement and technology companies, and the pathways from reporting to investigation, prosecution and disruption of online abuse.
In addition to the focus area of CSW70 "Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all older women", this side event aims to address gender inequality and discrimination in older age through the intersection between the age and gender and how this affects the enjoyment of human rights by older women.
