Outcomes

The principal output of the Commission on the Status of Women is the agreed conclusions on priority themes set for each year. Agreed conclusions contain an analysis of the priority theme and a set of concrete recommendations for governments, intergovernmental bodies and other institutions, civil society actors and other relevant stakeholders, to be implemented at the international, national, regional and local level.

In addition to the agreed conclusions, the Commission also adopts a number of resolutions on a range of issues.

The agreed conclusions adopted at the annual sessions of the Commission, held from 1996 to 2013, are available below for download in Adobe PDF format. The agreed conclusions adopted between 1996 and 2009 are also available as a publication.

66th session (14-24 March 2022)

65th session (15-26 March 2021)

Agreed conclusions:
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.
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64th session

63rd session (11-22 March 2019)

62nd session (12-23 March 2018)

61st session (13-24 March 2017)

60th session (14-24 March 2016)

59th session (9-20 March 2015)

The twenty-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly was carried out during the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission adopted a Declaration. No agreed conclusions were adopted.
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Extracted from: E/2015/27

58th session (10-21 March 2014)

57th session (4-15 March 2013)

56th session (27 February - 9 March and 15 March 2012)

No agreed conclusions were adopted on the Commission's priority theme, The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.

55th session (22 February-4 March and 14 March 2011)

Agreed conclusions:
Access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work
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Extracted from E/2011/27-E/CN.6/2011/12

54th session (1-12 March 2010)

The fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly was carried out during the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission adopted a Declaration. No agreed conclusions were adopted.
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Extracted from E/2010/27-E/CN.6/2010/11

53rd session (2-13 March 2009)

52nd session (25 February-7 and 13 March 2008)

51st session (26 February- 9 March 2007)

50th session (27 February-10 March 2006 and 16 March 2006)

Agreed conclusions:
A - Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment
for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work
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B - Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels
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Extracted from E/2006/27-E/CN.6/2006/15, Corr.1, and Corr.2

49th session (28 February-11 and 22 March 2005)

The ten year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action and the outcome documents of the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” was carried out during the forty-ninth rel="noopener noreferrer" session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission adopted a Declaration. No agreed conclusions rel="noopener noreferrer" were adopted.
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Extracted from E/2005/27 and Corr.1

48th session (1-12 March 2004)

47th session (3-14 and 25 March 2003)

Agreed conclusions:
2003/44: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women
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Extracted from E/2003/INF/2/Add.4 and Corr.1
No agreed conclusions were adopted on the Commission's other thematic issue: Women's human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls.

46th session (4-15 and 25 March 2002)

45th session (6-16 March and 9-11 May 2001)

44th session (28 February - 2 March 2000)

The Commission acted as the ad hoc preparatory committee for the twenty-third special session of the United Nations General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: Gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”. No agreed conclusions were adopted.

43rd session (1-12 March and 1 April 1999)