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Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
The CSW is one of the functional Commissions of ECOSOC and the major policy-making body responsible for assisting in monitoring, reviewing, appraising progress and problems and maintaining public awareness of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, ensuring support for mainstreaming a gender perspective in UN activities, identifying emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women.
- UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) website
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Prepares recommendations and reports to ECOSOC on promoting women's rights and monitors, within the UN system, the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
- 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2012)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/56sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Priority Theme: "The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges"
Review Theme: "Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women "
- 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2011)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/55sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Priority Theme: "Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work"
Review Theme: "The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child"
- 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2010)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/index.html ]
Languages: English
15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000)
- 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2009)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/53sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Priority Theme: "The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS"
Review Theme: "Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels"
- 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2008)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/52sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Priority Theme: "Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women"
Emerging Issue: "Gender Perspectives on Climate Change"
Review Theme: "Women's Equal Participation in Conflict Prevention, Management and Conflict Resolution and in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"
- 51st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2007)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Priority Theme: "Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child."
Emerging Issue: "Elimination of all forms of violence against women"
Review Theme: "The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality"
- 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2006)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/50sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Themes:
- "Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work."
- "Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels."
- 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2005)
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm ]
Languages: English
Themes:
- "Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly"
- "Current challenges and forward-looking strategies for the advancement and empowerment of women and girls"
- CSW communications procedure
[ http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/ ]
Languages: English
Any individual, non-governmental organization, group or network may submit communications (complaints/appeals/petitions) to the Commission on the Status of Women containing information relating to alleged violations of human rights that affect the status of women in any country in the world.
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