Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on Its 52nd Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for the 53rd Session of the Commision

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

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10 operative paragraphs

At its 40th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2008, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-second session47 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-third session of the Commission as set out below:

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Documentation

Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work

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”:

Implementation of strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern, and

further actions and initiatives;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS

Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men;

Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters.

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on progress in mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluation of national policies and programmes,

with a particular focus on the priority theme

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women

47 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2008, Supplement No. 7 (E/2008/27).

Report of the Secretary-General on women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS

Report of the Secretary-General on the joint workplan of the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the Fund to eliminate violence against women

Note by the Secretariat transmitting the outcome of the forty-third session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Communications concerning the status of women.

Documentation

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the list of confidential communications concerning the status of women

Report of the Secretary-General on the future work of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women

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

Documentation

Letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council to the Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women

Note by the Secretariat as an input to the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2009 of the Economic and Social Council

Provisional agenda for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission.

Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-third session.

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