E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 Chapter III Communications concerning the status of women 1. The Commission considered item 4 of its agenda at its 15th (closed) meeting, on 7 March 2012. It had before it the following documents: (a) Report of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women (see para. 3 below); 1 (b) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the list of confidential communications concerning the status of women (E/CN.6/2012/SW/COMM.LIST/ 46/R and Add.1). Action taken by the Commission Report of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women 2. At its 15th meeting (closed), on 7 March, the Commission considered the report of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women. 3. At the same meeting (closed), the Commission decided to take note of the report of the Working Group and to incorporate it in the report of its fifty-sixth session. The report of the Working Group read as follows: 1. The Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women met in closed meetings before the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2002/235 and was guided in its deliberations by the mandate given to it by the Council in its resolution 76 (V), as amended by the Council in its resolutions 304 I (XI), 1983/27, 1992/19, 1993/11 and 2009/16. 2. The Working Group considered the list of confidential communications and replies by Governments (E/CN.6/2012/SW/COMM.LIST/46/R and Add.1). There was no list of non-confidential communications concerning the status of women since no such communications had been received by the SecretaryGeneral. 3. The Working Group considered the 48 confidential communications, comprising 86 cases addressed to 61 States, received directly by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). The Working Group noted that no confidential communications concerning the status of women had been received from other United Nations bodies or the specialized agencies. 4. The Working Group noted that there were 40 replies from 29 Governments. 2 __________________ 1 2 40 The report was circulated internally under document symbol E/CN.6/2012/ CRP.2. Thirty-nine of the replies concern the 2012 list of confidential communications (E/CN.6/2012/ SW/COMM.LIST/46/R) and one of the replies concerns the 2012 list of confidential communications (E/CN.6/2011/SW/COMM.LIST/45/R). 12-27405