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Economic and Social Council
Commission on the Status of Women
Sixtieth session
14-24 March 2016
Agenda item 2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters
Draft resolution submitted by the Chair, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Brazil), on
the basis of informal consultations
The Commission on the Status of Women recommends to the Economic and
Social Council the adoption of the following draft resolution:
Multi-year programme of work of the Commission on the Status
of Women
The Economic and Social Council,
Recalling
that, in its resolutions 1987/24 of 26 May 1987, 1990/15 of 24 May
1990, 1996/6 of 22 July 1996, 2001/4 of 24 July 2001, 2006/9 of 25 July 2006,
2009/15 of 28 July 2009 and 2013/18 of 24 July 2013, the Council adopted
multi-year programmes of work for a focused and thematic approach for the
Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling also
that in its resolution 2013/18 the Council requested the
Commission at its sixtieth session to decide on its future multi -year programme of
work,
Recalling further
its resolution 2015/6 of 8 June 2015, in which the Council
requested the Commission to continue to apply a thematic approach to its work and
to adopt a multi-year programme of work to allow predictability and adequate time
for preparation; in selecting its priority theme, taking into consideration, in addition
to the Beijing Platform for Action
1
and the outcomes of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly,
2
the programme of work of the Council, as well as
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
3
so as to build synergies and
contribute to the work of the Council and the high-level political forum on
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2
3
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 -15 September 1995
(United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
General Assembly resolution 70/1.
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sustainable development, according to the modalities to be established by the
General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council in the context of the high -
level political forum,
Recalling
that the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the
Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with their respective mandates
and in accordance with Assembly resolution 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and other
relevant resolutions, should constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism
that would play the primary role in the overall policymaking and follow -up, and in
coordinating the implementation and monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action
and reaffirming the catalytic role of the Commission in mainstreaming a gend er
perspective in policies and programmes,
Acknowledging
the centrality of the Beijing Platform for Action to the work of
the Commission on the Status of Women, and recognizing that a robust, voluntary,
effective, participatory, transparent and integrated follow-up and review framework
of the 2030 Agenda will make a vital contribution to the implementation of the
Beijing Platform for Action and help countries to maximize and track progress in
order to ensure that no one is left behind,
Recalling
the invitation to the Commission on the Status of Women to consider
the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women at a future session, as stated in
paragraph 19 of General Assembly resolution 69/2 of 22 September 2014, and
acknowledging the intention to place this issue as a focus area of its sixty-first
session,
Themes for 2017-2019
1.
Decides
that the Commission’s multi-year programme of work for the
sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third sessions will be as follows:
(a)
Sixty-first session (2017):
(i) Priority theme: women’s economic empowerment in the changing
world of work;
(ii) Review theme: challenges and achievements in the implementation
of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed
conclusions of the fifty-eighth session);
(b)
Sixty-second session (2018):
(i) Priority theme: challenges and opportunities in achieving gender
equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
(ii) 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);
(c)
Sixty-third session (2019):
(i) Priority theme: social protection systems, access to public services
and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment
of women and girls;
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(ii) Review theme: women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable
development (agreed conclusions of the sixtieth session);
2.
Requests
the Commission, in order to achieve concrete results in each
review cycle, to consider and make a recommendation at its sixty-second session on
how best to utilize the year 2020, on the occasion of the twenty -fifth anniversary of
the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the realization of
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
3.
Affirms
that the Commission will contribute to the thematic reviews of
progress on the Sustainable Development Goals taking place at the high -level
political forum.
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