17th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status…

1) Introduction of draft proposals, Action on draft proposals

• • Statements in connection with the draft agreed conclusions
    • Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions
    • Action on any other outstanding issues
      • Provisional agenda for the seventy-first session of the Commission
      • Adoption of the report of the Commission on its seventieth session

2) Closure of the seventieth session

3) Opening of the Seventy-first session

• • Opening of the seventy-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women
    • Election of the Bureau of the seventy-first session

Priority theme: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers

Review theme: Women's full and effective participation and decision making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-fifth session)

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established by Council resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946.

The CSW is instrumental in promoting women's rights, documenting the reality of women's lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women.