The Fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 56) will be held from 27 February to 9 March 2012 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The priority theme of the session is the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
Other themes to be covered are:
Review theme:
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women
Emerging issue:
Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality
Established by ECOSOC resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946, the Comission on the Status of Women is the principal global policy-making body dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide.
The active participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a critical element in the work of the CSW. UN Women facilitates the participation of NGOs in sessions of the Commission.
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