CSW62 2018

CSW62 Empowering Rural Women and Girls

CSW62 (2018)

The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attended the session.

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Themes

Priority theme:
Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
Review theme:
Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session);

Bureau

The Bureau of the Commission plays a crucial role in facilitating the preparation for, and in ensuring the successful outcome of the annual sessions of the Commission. Bureau members serve for two years. In 2002, in order to improve its work and ensure continuity, the Commission decided to hold the first meeting of its subsequent session, immediately following the closure of the regular session, for the sole purpose of electing the new Chairperson and other members of the Bureau (ECOSOC decision 2002/234).

The Bureau for the 62^nd session (2018) of the Commission on the Status of Women comprises the following members:

H.E. Ms. Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ireland), Chair (Western European and other States Group)
Ms. Koki Muli Grignon (Kenya), Vice-Chair (African States Group)
Mr. Mauricio Carabali Baquero (Colombia), Vice-Chair (Latin American and Caribbean States Group)
Ms. Rena Tasuja (Estonia), Vice-Chair (Eastern European States Group)
Mr. Shah Asif Rahman (Bangladesh), Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific States Group)

Preparations

FSN Forum
Multi-Stakeholder Forum
Expert Group Meeting In preparation for the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women convened an Expert Group Meeting on the priority theme: “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.” The Expert Group Meeting was co-convened by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) at IFAD Headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 20 to 22 September 2017.

Organization of the session

The Commission's two-week session included the following activities:

Organization of work

Official Documents

Official documents for the session

Agreed Conclusions

The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme during its 62nd session takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all Member States.

The Commission on the Status of Women adopted agreed conclusions on “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls” on 23 March 2018.

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NGO Participation

Side events

Information about side events and activities organized outside the formal programme of the session