Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on Its 63rd Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for Its 64th Session

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19a Advancement of women, published in 2020.

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8 operative paragraphs

At its 20th plenary meeting, on 6 June 2019, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its sixty-third session 10 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the sixty-fourth 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: review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2018/8);

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly

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

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

including equality between women and men;

Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretary-General:

Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts

Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS

Proposals on the Commission’s priority and review themes for 2021 and beyond

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-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

10 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2019, Supplement No. 7 (E/2019/27).

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

Provisional agenda of the sixty-fifth session of the Commission.

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

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