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Organization of the 43rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women

 

 

Monday

1 March

Tuesday

2 March

Wednesday

3 March

Thursday

4 March

Friday

5 March

a.m.

 

 

 

 

 

Opening of the session:

Adoption of the agenda and organization of work;

General debate:

Item 3b and 4.

General debate:

Item 3b and 4.

NGO interventions.

(one hour)

Item 3c:

Panel I

Women and Health

Item 3c:

Panel II

Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women

 

Items 3a:

Gender Mainstreaming in the UN.

p.m.

 

 

 

General debate:

Item 3b and 4.

 

General debate:

Structured dialogue on Good Practices.*

Item 3c:

Panel I

(continued)

 

Panel II

(continued)

Informals

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

8 March

Tuesday

9 March

Wednesday

10 March

Thursday

11 March

Friday

12 March

a.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Women's Day

(10:00-11:30 am)

(11:30 am-1:00 pm)

Item 3a (DAW Programme Budget 2000-2001)

Introduction of proposals Closed meeting to consider the report of the Working Group on Communications.

Informals

Informals Report of the Working Group on an Optional Protocol.

Action on outstanding issues

p.m.

 

 

 

 

Meeting of CSW with open-ended Working Group on the Optional Protocol.

Informals

Informals Informals Action on proposals followed by informals Adoption of the report.

 

 

 

The Working Group of the CSW on an Optional Protocol will meet in parallel to the Commission.

* Regional groups will each be invited by the CSW Bureau to designate one country whose representative from its national machinery for the advancement of women will present its good practices.

 

Table 2. Organization of the second preparatory meeting for the high-level review in the year 2000.

 

 

Monday

15 March

Tuesday

16 March

Wednesday

17 March

Thursday

18 March

Friday

19 March

a.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preparations for the High-level Review. Expert Panel on further actions and initiatives. *

 

 

Informals Informals Action on outstanding proposals;

Adoption of Report.

 

p.m.

 

 

 

 

Expert Panel on further actions and initiatives.* Informals Informals Informals

 

 

 

Adoption of the Report;

Closure of the session

 

 

 

* If Governments wish to propose experts for the panels, they should provide the curriculum vitae of the experts to the Secretariat (DAW) by 15 November 1998.