India Elected Member of UN Commission on Status of Women
India, on September 15, 2020 got elected as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women(CSW), securing the most votes ahead of China. Afghanistan was the other country elected as member. The election marksthe year of 25thanniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women, which started in the year 1995.
Highlights
- The UN General Council held elections for two seats in the Asia-Pacific States category with Afghanistan, India and China as the candidates.
- India and Afghanistan will join Argentina, Austria, Dominican Republic, Israel, Latvia, Nigeria, Turkey and Zambia, which were elected by acclamation, to the Commission on ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
World Watch
- 1 Global Maternal Mortality Overview
- 2 China Tightens Control at Scarborough Shoal
- 3 India Expresses Concern Over Beirut Strikes
- 4 India, Türkiye Hold 12th Foreign Office Consultations
- 5 2026 Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit
- 6 India-UN Development Fund Operations Reviewed
- 7 India-Australia ECTA Completes Four Years
- 8 India Elected to Key ECOSOC Subsidiary Bodies
- 9 UNSC Resolution on Strait of Hormuz Vetoed by Russia and China
- 10 WTO MC14 Ends without Consensus
