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NCRW is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations, with special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and the Department of Public Information.

NCRW collaborates with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Gender in Development, the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), and the International Women's Tribune Center (IWTC) to forge partnerships between women's NGO's and the United Nations, and establish links between education and development.

UN Activities:

• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Meetings
  

  • Summary of 2005 CSW and Beijing +10 Review
    (by Mary P. Haney for NCRW)

  • Summary of Roundtable Session hosted by NCRW at 2005 CSW

  • 2005 CSW/ Beijing Review and Appraisal Resources
    

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Meetings

NCRW Activities:

• Rockefeller Humanities Grant
  

• Interactive CD-ROM Presentation entitled "Women Go Global: The International Women's Movement & the United Nations: 1945-2000.
  

• NCRW co-hosted its Beijing Plus Five Global Feminist Symposia:Feminisms and Globalization: Women 2000 with the Japan Preparatory Committee and the CUNY Center for the Study of Women and Society.