Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on Its 59th Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for the 60th Session of the Commission

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2015.

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16 versions · 1990–2025

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At its 36th plenary meeting, on 10 June 2015, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-ninth session13 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the sixtieth session of the Commission 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:

Priority theme: women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development;

12 E/2015/80.

13 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27).

Review theme: elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development

Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Note by the Secretariat containing a discussion guide for the high-level round table on women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development

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

Reports of the Secretary-General:

– 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

– Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women

– Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts (pursuant to Commission resolution 58/1)

– Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS (pursuant to Commission resolution 58/3)

– Proposals on the Commission’s priority themes for future sessions, bearing in mind the results of the ongoing review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 61/16 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2012/30

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women

Note by the Secretariat transmitting the outcome of relevant sessions 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 and responses thereto

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

Documentation

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

Note by the Secretariat serving as a contribution to the work of the Economic and Social Council

Provisional agenda for the sixty-first session of the Commission.

Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixtieth session.

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