Women's Rights and Gender Equality at the United Nations
The United Nations with their entity UN-Women and the annual sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women have a decisive role in defining legal norms and standards.
Austria is a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women for a period of four years from 2021 to 2025. Austria regularly sends a high-level delegation to the annual meeting, which traditionally also includes representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGO).
The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place in March 2024. The priority theme was "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective".
The 69th session in 2025 will focus on the review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) to mark the 30th anniversary (Beijing+30).