Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on Its 60th Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for Its 61st Session

E/DEC/2016/224View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2016–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2026/311

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	E/DEC/2026/311	Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its 70th session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 71st session	—	—
2016	E/DEC/2016/224	Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its 60th session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 61st session	456	–

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1 subject

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What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

At its 27th plenary meeting, on 2 June 2016, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its sixtieth session15 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the sixty-first session of the Commission as set out below:

15 Ibid., 2016, Supplement No. 7 (E/2016/27).

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 economic empowerment in the changing world of work;

Review theme: challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the fifty-eighth session);

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work

Report of the Secretary-General on the challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the fifty-eighth session)

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 ministerial round tables

Emerging issues, trends, focus areas and new approaches to questions affecting the situation of women,

including equality between women and men;

Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters.

Documentation

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

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-second session of the Commission.

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

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