E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 (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; (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 3 taking place at the high-level political forum. Draft resolution II Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women* The Economic and Social Council, Having considered with appreciation the report of the SecretaryGeneral, 1 Recalling the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, 2 in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 3 and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. III. 1 E/CN.6/2016/6. 2 Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15 -26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect. A. 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. 16-05842 21/62

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