Press Release - The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) delivered today robust commitments by UN Member States to strengthen financing and institutions to eradicate women's and girls' poverty.
This International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, join the United Nations in celebrating under the theme Invest in women: Accelerate progress.
The outcome document recognizes that women and girls living in poverty become 'shock absorbers' in times of crisis, and that further efforts are needed to increase resources to address women's and girls' poverty. The outcome document also notes that official development assistance must be increased to address women's and girls' poverty. The share of total aid with gender equality as a policy objective decreased for the first time in a decade from 45 in 2019 to 43 per cent in 2020, per the latest data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .
The Agreed Conclusions also call to strengthen national capacities to collect and use disaggregated data on multidimensional poverty, and to adopt new development strategies towards sustainable economies. These include strengthening inclusive and gender-responsive social protection systems and scaling up investment in the care economy to reduce women's time and income poverty and expand their employment opportunities.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
On the sidelines of CSW68, approximately 270 side events were organized by UN Member States, intergovernmental organizations and UN entities; and more than 760 parallel events were organized by civil society and youth-led organizations as part of the NGO CSW68 Forum.
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