Annotated Provisional Agenda
Bureau Members
Agreed Conclusions
Official Documents
Panel Discussions
Press Releases
Resolutions
Statements
Schedule of Side Events
NGO Participation
Final Report

The forty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held from 1 to 12 March 2004 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
(Summary of the session)

The Commission focused on two thematic issues as outlined in its multi-year programme of work:

1. The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality;
2. Women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building.

Panel discussions on the above thematic issues were held on 2 March 2004.

Pursuant to its decision 46/101, the Commission held a high-level round table which focused on "Gaps and challenges in measuring progress in the context of the review and appraisal and implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly at the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in 2005". The round table was held on Monday, 1 March 2004, at 3 p.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

CSW Bureau Members

Following the closure of the 47th session of the CSW at its resumed session on 25 March 2003, the Acting Chairperson declared open the 48th session of the Commission on the Status of Women for the sole purpose of electing the new Chairperson and other members of the Bureau.

The following were elected for a term of two years (forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions, 2004-2005:)

• Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Chairperson (Republic of Korea) Ms. Lala Ibrahimova, Vice-Chairperson (Azerbaijan, for a term of one year) Ms. Tebatso Future Baleseng, Vice-Chairperson (Botswana) Ms. Beatrice Maille, Vice-Chairperson (Canada)
• Ms. Carmen-Rosa Arias, Vice-Chairperson (Peru)

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Agreed Conclusions:

(The following documents are in PDF format)

• Women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building
  
• The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality

Resolutions and Decisions

Resolutions - All documents are in PDF format
[Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish]

• E/CN.6/2004/L.1/REV.1   [ A C E F R S ] - AS ADOPTED ON 11 MARCH 2004
  Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.2   [ A C E F R S ] - AS ADOPTED ON 11 MARCH 2004
  Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.3/REV.1   [ A C E F R S ] - AS ADOPTED ON 11 MARCH 2004
  Revitalization and strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.4/REV.1   [ A C E F R S ] - AS ADOPTED ON 12 MARCH 2004
  Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.5 - ORALLY REVISED   [ IN ENGLISH ONLY ]
  Release of Women and Children taken hostage, including those subsequestly imprisoned, in armed conflicts
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.6 - ORALLY REVISED    [ IN ENGLISH ONLY ]
  Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system
  
  
• E/CN.6/2004/L.12 - ORALLY REVISED    [ IN ENGLISH ONLY ]
  Preparation for the Forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  
  

• E/CN.6/2004/L.13   [ A C E F R S ] - AS ADOPTED ON 12 MARCH 2004
  Working methods of the Commission on the Status of Women

Statements

• Mr. Jose Antonio Ocampo
  Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
  Ms. Angela E.V. King
  Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
  Ms. Carolyn Hannan
  Director, UN Division for the Advancement of Women
  Ms. Noeleen Heyzer
  Executive Director, UNIFEM
  Ms. Carmen Moreno
  Director, INSTRAW
  
• Ms. Feride Acar
  Chairperson, CEDAW

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Press Releases

• [12 March 2004] WOMEN’S COMMISSION ADOPTS AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON MEN’S ROLE IN ACHIEVING GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’S EQUAL PARTICIPATION IN CONFLICT PREVENTION, Concludes 48th Session
  
  [11 March 2004] WOMEN’S COMMISSION APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON PALESTINIAN WOMEN, HOSTAGE-TAKING, AFGHAN WOMEN, INSTRAW
  
  [10 March 2004] COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT RESOLUTION ON GENDER MAINSTREAMING, REVITALIZATION OF WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
  
  [9 March 2004] WOMEN’S COMMISSION HEARS INTRODUCTION OF FIVE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON HOSTAGES, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, AFGHAN WOMEN, HIV/AIDS, COMMUNICATIONS
  
  [5 March 2004] REVIEW OF 1995 BEIJING ACTION PLAN SHOULD FOCUS ON NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION, AVOID LENGTHY NEGOTIATIONS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD
  
  [4 March 2004] DELEGATES TO WOMEN’S COMMISSION STRESS NEED TO ENGAGE MALES IN ELIMINATING STEREOTYPES, DISCRIMINATION
  
  [3 March 2004] DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, PEACE PROCESS REQUIRE WOMEN’S EQUAL PARTICIPATION TO SUCCEED, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD
  
  [2 March 2004] WOMEN’S EQUAL PARTICIPATION IN PEACE PROCESSES, MEN’S ROLE IN ACHIEVING GENDER EQUALITY ADDRESSED BY WOMEN’S COMMISSION IN TWO PANEL DISCUSSIONS
  
  
• [1 March 2004] ROLE OF MEN, BOYS IN ACHIEVING GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’S ROLE IN CONFLICT PREVENTION THEMES FOR WOMEN’S COMMISSION, AS TWO-WEEK SESSION OPENS

NGO Participation

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are accredited to, and in good standing with, the Economic and Social Council were eligible to designate representatives to attend the session. Over 900 representatives from all over the world attended (List of Organizations). As has been the practice of prior years, a room was designated for use by NGOs. As observers, NGOs were permitted to submit written statements relating to the two thematic issues. (For guidelines relating to these statements, please link to the NGO ECOSOC website) NGOs were also permitted to provide input into the session by presenting oral interventions.  A total of sixteen regional and international NGOs made interventions.  NGOs were required to request time for their intervention in advance of the session, and to complete a form which lists the name of the speaker, organization(s)/caucus, topic to be addressed and endorsing groups. NGOs were also required to provide seventeen copies of the statement for distribution to the bureau and translators.

A total of 176 side events organized by UN entities and NGOs took place during the session.

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