CSW62 (2018)

Commission on the Status of Women

The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from March 12 to 23, 2018.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are welcome to attend the session.

Priority theme

Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls

Review theme

Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session)

Bureau

The Bureau of the Commission plays a crucial role in facilitating the preparation for, and in ensuring the successful outcome of the annual sessions of the Commission. Bureau members serve for two years. In 2002, in order to improve its work and ensure continuity, the Commission decided to hold the first meeting of its subsequent session, immediately following the closure of the regular session, for the sole purpose of electing the new Chairperson and other members of the Bureau (ECOSOC decision 2002/234).

The Bureau for the 62nd session (2018) of the Commission on the Status of Women comprises the following members:

• H.E. Ms. Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ireland), Chair–designate (Western European and other States Group)
• Ms. Koki Muli Grignon (Kenya), Vice-Chair (African States Group)
• Mr. Mauricio Carabali Baquero (Colombia), Vice-Chair (Latin American and Caribbean States Group)
• Ms. Rena Tasuja (Estonia), Vice-Chair-designate (Eastern European States Group)
• Mr. Shah Asif Rahman (Bangladesh), Vice-Chair-designate (Asia-Pacific States Group)