New Year, Same Commissions and Committees at the U.N.

Grace Melton / February 24, 2011

February marks the beginning of the season of commission meetings at the United Nations in New York, where the Commission for Social Development wrapped up last week and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is just beginning.

Delegates to the Commission for Social Development discussed the lofty goal of poverty eradication as their priority theme and debated the effectiveness of social protection schemes in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The CSW, typically a forum for international feminist frenzy, is poised to discuss the priority theme of “access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work.” The U.S. delegation to CSW this year includes actress Geena Davis, Google’s Megan Smith, and Melanne Verveer, the new Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. (more…)