The Commission on the Status of Women: A Regional Approach

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a feminist network with over 700 members across 46 African countries, which IWHC has supported as a grantee since 2013. FEMNET coordinates African women’s organizations to advocate at regional and international levels. IWHC talked to FEMNET about its role at the recent Commission on the Status of Women—the largest gathering on women’s rights, which takes place at the United Nations every year. Why is the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) important to your organization? CSW remains the largest normative global space dedicated towards advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. CSW is also an important space for advocacy given that it is one of the unique policy spaces that is dedicated to solely for the purpose of discussing gender and

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