The outcome documents (declaration & resolutions in all languages) of the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women including the final report of the Commission has been released.
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NGO Participation Information

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which were eligible to designate representatives to attend the session. Close to 600 NGO organizations sent participants to the session and the number of individual NGO participants was more than 2700 (List of Organizations).

Click here to view the NGO Participation Information Note () where arrangement details for NGO representatives attending CSW49 have been made. (NGO Participation Information Note ).

HOURS FOR NGO REGISTRATION & GROUND PASSES FOR NGO PARTICIPANTS

NGO representatives may pick up their UN ground passes at the United Nations Visitor’s Lobby (First Avenue and 46th Street).

All NGOs should enter via the Visitor’s Entrance in the General Assembly Building, at all times, and will be required to pass through the magnetometers. On the first day of the commission session, there will be a separate magnetometer set up exclusively for NGO representatives attending the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

The registration desk will be located under the Foucault’s Pendulum in the General Assembly Visitor’s Lobby.

The DAW Registration Desk will be open on
• 25 February (Friday), 9:30am - 8:00pm;
• 27 February (Sunday), 10:00am - 10:00pm;
• 28 February (Monday), 7:00am - 4:30pm;
• 1 March (Tuesday) to 3 March (Thursday), 9:00am – 4:30pm;
• 4 March (Friday), 9:00am – 12:30pm;
• 7 March (Monday) to 10 March (Thursday), 9:00am – 4:30pm;
• 11 March (Friday), 9:00am-12:30pm.

NOTE: The registration desk will be closed everyday 12:30pm – 2:00pm.

Confirmation letters

NGOs and organizations that have registered to attend the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW49): it is now possible to print out your “Confirmation Letter” on-line.

To obtain your "Confirmation Letter" for attendance to CSW49, login to http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw49/register.

Please remember you will need your organization "ID" and associated password to login (the same as the ones you had used for registration). While retrieving your confirmation letters, please also re-check your list of selected representatives to ensure it is complete and accurate.

Once logged in, scroll to the list of your organization’s representatives. Next to each representative listed you will see a "retrieve" button. Please click this button for each of your attending representatives. Finally print out the "Confirmation Letter". If you have problems retrieving the letters online, please send e-mail to csw49@un.org for assistance containing your organization’s ID.

The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) will not be held liable for any confirmation letters other than those officially posted on the website.

• The Secretary-General's message to “Beijing 2005: The 10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Fourth World Conference on Women”
  Beijing, 29 August 2005
  
• (posted 16 Feb. 2005) The NGO Committee on the Status of Women invites you to celebrate with women from around the world at events scheduled throughout the city to commemorate 30 years since the first UN Women’s Conference was held in Mexico City, 10 years since the creation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action was adopted by UN Member States, and 5 years since the historic Resolution 1325, assuring women’s participation in peace-making and peace-building, was approved by the UN Security Council. These historic events reaffirm that women are a critical part of society.
  
  The NGO Committee on the Status of Women celebrates the United Nations review of progress of the world’s women with events in the afternoon of March 5, 2005, which are scheduled in the Village, mid-town and uptown in Harlem. More information on the celebratory events for women artists >>
  
• Note of the Bureau of the CSW On the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women - Opportunities for High-level Participation
  28 February - 11 March 2005
  
• Issues Papers for Interactive Panels planned for the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  
• Press release: United Nations Expert Group Meeting to discuss achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and MDGs
  (New York, 3 February 2005)
  
• Press release: United Nations Commission to Appraise Worldwide Situation of Women
  Beijing at Ten
  Achieving Gender Equality, Development and Peace
  (New York, 31 January 2005)
  
• Please see the schedule of High-level events planned for the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women from 28 February - 11 March 2005.
  
• Panelists Nominated by Member States for Panels
  
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
• WomenWatch starts the series of online discussions on the Review and Appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome document of the Twenty-third Special Session of the General Assembly on 11 October 2004. Organizations, governments and individuals are welcome to join the discussions.
• Statement by Ms. Carolyn Hannan at the UNESCAP High-level intergovernmental meeting to review regional implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the regional and global outcomes held 7-10 September 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand
  
• Please visit our newly developed Frequently Asked Questions page for information on the 49th session of CSW.
  
• Statement by Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Director of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and Officer-in Charge of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, at the Arab Regional Conference Ten Years after Beijing: Call for Peace, Beirut, July 2004 (click here for the "Beirut Declaration", available in English and Arabic)
  
• Press release: Arab women to launch call for peace at Beijing+10 Regional Conference in Beirut, 8-10 July
  
• Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Adopt the Mexico City Consensus (12 June 2004)
  
• Statement by Ms. Carolyn Hannan at the Ninth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico City, 10–12 June 2004
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