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Statement to the Anglican Consultative Council from the Anglican Communion delegation to the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, March 2017

The sixty-first session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW61) addressed a critical theme –the empowerment of women in the changing world of work – at a critical moment in world affairs. This is a time to come together, and that is precisely what we did at the UNCSW61.

The focus of this year's 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) was a 20-year anniversary review of the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, unanimously adopted by 189 countries at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women as an agenda for women’s empowerment and a global policy document on gender equality.

The many aboriginal women in Canada who have gone missing or been murdered has gained  public interest and concern over the last several years. 

The fifty-seventh session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was devoted to “ending violence against women.”

Anglican women have engaged with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) since 1985 when the Anglican Consultative Council was first granted official non-governmental status with ECOSOC, the UN Economic and Social Council.

This year’s 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was focused on the priority theme of the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS.

On Tuesday, 22 February, 2011, the 55th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will commence with the Opening Plenary Session.

From March 1-12 2010, 93 Anglican Women delegates from 23 Provinces of the Anglican Communion are converging at the United Nations as a united voice first and foremost to declare that gender is relational, that is why God made us male and female.

Since the UN’s first international conference on women in 1975 and the  subsequent growth of the global women’s movement, women have used the UN as  a key advocacy space to advance global policy on women’s rights and to improve  the status of women in countries around the world.