Every spring, thousands of government officials, activists and policy makers descend on the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York City for two weeks of both high-level meetings and side-events at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
As CSW69 concluded this year, there was a sense of plus ça change – except the “changes” now take place behind closed doors under the control of a select few.
The CSW began in 1946 as one of the original sub-commissions of the UN’s Economic and Social Affairs Commission (ECOSOC). According to the CSW website, the annual meeting is now “a one-of-a-kind platform for feminists from around the world to advocate, learn and share experiences”.
