CSW61: Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work

Date: 
Friday, December 16, 2016
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Human Rights
Justice, Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform
United Nation Theme: 
Background

Provisional agenda:

1. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”:

(a) Implementation of strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern and further actions and initiatives:

(i) Priority theme: women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work;

(ii) Review theme: challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls;

(b) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men: empowerment of indigenous women;

(c) Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters.

4. Communications concerning the status of women.

5. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions.

6. Provisional agenda for the sixty-second session of the Commission.

7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-first session.

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CSW61: Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work