On March 12 2010 the CSW adopted seven resolutions:
# Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS
# Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts
# The situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
# Women’s economic empowerment
# Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women
# Strengthening institutional arrangement of the UN for support of gender equality and the empowerment of women by consolidating the four existing offices into a composite entity
# Ending female genital mutilation
Downloads are available at the CSW-website.
At the same website Moderator’s summaries of high level round tables and panel sicussions are to be foud:
* High-level round table on “Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and its contribution to shaping a gender perspective in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals”
* Panel discussion on “Linkages between implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals”
* Panel discussion on “Women’s economic empowerment in the context of the global economic and financial crisis”
* Panel discussion on “Implementing the internationally agreed development goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women – contribution to the 2010 Annual Ministerial Review of the Economic and Social Council”
For the moment this is our last blog. There are still several subjects to write about on my list, but other commitments have to prevail for the moment. Maybe later.
Leontine Bijleveld
Met Nederlands ambassadeur en CSW Facilitator Yoka Brandt op de foto na afloop van de CSW68 “We have reservations on the text. We don’t have instructions to proceed to adoption .” After seven days of negotiations at the UN during this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Nigeria almost blocked the negotiated outcome document from being adopted. Almost, because after some formal and informal interventions in Conference Room 4, the Nigerian delegate, flanked by the Dutch Ambassador Yoka Brandt, added: “I now have instructions to support the adoption.” On the balcony filled with civil society as well as in the plenary room there was a clear sigh of relief followed by enthusiastic applause, hugging and photo taking. We have Agreed Conclusions ! Early negotiations As usual, the CSW negotiations process started early February with a Zero Draft , developed by UN Women and the CSW Bureau. And with input and inspiration taken from the Secretary General Report. For the EU, as
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