. WOMEN’S EQUALITY .
A press release from UN Women (abbreviated)
The sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are invited to attend the session.
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Themes
Priority theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work
Review theme: Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the fifty-eighth session)
Emerging issue/Focus area:The empowerment of indigenous women
Preparations
Regional CSW61 Preparatory and Consultative Meetings
Multi-Stakeholder Forum On 30 January 2017, UN Women convened a forum to engage a range of stakeholders in the preparations for CSW61 at UN Headquarters in New York.
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Does the UN advance equality for women?
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Expert Group Meeting: In preparation for the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women convened an Expert Group Meeting on the priority theme: “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.” The Expert Group Meeting was held with the technical contribution and support of the International Labour Organization (ILO) at ILO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 to 28 September 2016.
Organization of the session
The Commission’s two-week session includes the following activities: Organization of work
Agreed conclusions
The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all States: Draft agreed conclusions
Official Documents
Official documents for the session
NGO Participation
Modalities of NGO participation
Opportunities for NGOs to address the Commission
Side events
Information about side events and activities organized outside the formal programme of the session
More information regarding the 61st session (2017) of the Commission on the Status of Women to be uploaded as it becomes available.