NEW YORK — Bahamas Senate President Katherine Forbes Smith (left) and Mary Louise Culmer of Freeport, Grand Bahama, are pictured at the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which got underway at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday, March 11, and will conclude on March 22, 2019. The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is a global policy-making body dedicated exclusively to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are attending the session.
