The sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 10 to 21 March 2025.

The main focus of the sixty-ninth session will be on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly. The review will include an assessment of current challenges that affect the implementation of the Platform for Action and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and its contribution towards the full realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This is a crucial moment, one that requires urgent and decisive action. The global trade union movement urges United Nations Member States to seize the opportunity presented by the 69th session of the United Nations Commission of the Status of Women (CSW69/Beijing+30) to drastically change course. The Beijing+30 Declaration must support the workers’ call for a New Social Contract rooted in a gender-transformative agenda, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and based on an intersectional approach. This is the only way to dismantle persistent structural barriers faced by women at the intersections of class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and migrant, indigenous and disability status, and to address the needs of those who have already been left behind.

Global Unions have jointly prepared and submitted a Statement to the UNCSW69.