The UN Commission on the Status of Women was established in 21 June 1946 and is dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.

March 2013 - 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women

• LGBTI activists at the 57th session of CSW to promote awareness about violence against L(G)BT people
• Strategies of resistance: Combating violence against lesbian, bisexual and trans women, an ILGA and RFSL panel event
• LBT Caucus issues statement at 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
• Final agreed conclusions from the CSW
  
  March 2012 - 56th UN Commission on the Status of Women

Priority theme of the 56th session of the CSW is "The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges"

• We are everywhere! Empowerment of lesbian and bisexual women and trans people - in rural areas and beyond - Panel held by ILGA and RFSL
• Panels organised by ILGA and by allies
• Report from Akinyi M. Ocholla (Representative of the ILGA Women’s Secretariat. Minority Women in Action, Kenya) on her attendance at the Commission on the Status of Women

March 2011 - 55th UN Commission on the Status of Women

Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work

• Resources on the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, March 2011
• Sexuality, homophobia and transphobia: the need to improve access to education and work English Español Français Português
  
  February 2010 - 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women
  
  Review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the general Assembly and its contribution to shaping a gender perspective towards the full realisation of the Millennium Development Goals.

• Homophobia within the education system English Español
• We Were and Are Still There: A Short History of Lesbians in the United Nations English Español Français