Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on Its 61st Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for Its 62nd Session

E/DEC/2017/229View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19a Advancement of women, published in 2017.

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2 versions · 2017–2018

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2018/228

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	E/DEC/2018/228	Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its 62nd session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 63rd session	464	75%Compare
2017	E/DEC/2017/229	Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its 61st session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 62nd session	536	–

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At its 32nd plenary meeting, on 7 June 2017, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its sixty-first session, 20 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the sixty-second 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 of the Commission on the Status of Women

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: challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;

Review theme: participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session);

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls

Report of the Secretary-General on the participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women

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 Secretary-General on the release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts

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

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

20 Ibid., Supplement No. 7 (E/2017/27).

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-third session of the Commission.

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

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