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Alert: Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters

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9 March 2025

Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters

Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard.