The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenged participants at the 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61) in March 2017: “Do not let us at the UN off the hook. Keep our feet to the fire.” Many civil society organizations (CSOs) are doing just that –  calling for more from the CSW.

At CSW 61, Dalia Leinarte, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) said, “[l]inking the [CEDAW] Convention to the 2030 Agenda [for Sustainable Development] has great potential in advancing women’s economic empowerment and enables the Committee to support States in implementing the [Sustainable Development Goals] SDGs.”

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