E/2016/27
E/CN.6/2016/22
Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its sixtieth session
and provisional agenda and documentation for the sixty-first session of
the Commission*
The Economic and Social Council takes note of the report of the
Commission on the Status of Women on its sixtieth session and approves the
provisional agenda and documentation for the sixty-first session of the
Commission set out below:
1.
Election of officers.
2.
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation
Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work
of the Commission on the Status of Women
3.
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the
twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the
twenty-first century”:
(a)
Implementation of strategic objectives and action in critical
areas of concern and further actions and initiatives:
(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 fiftyeighth session);
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on women’s economic
empowerment in the changing world of work
Report of the Secretary-General on the challenges and
achievements in the implementation of the Millennium
Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the
fifty eighth session)
Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment
of Women
Note by the Secretariat containing a discussion guide for the
ministerial round tables
(b)
Emerging issues, trends, focus areas and new approaches to
questions affecting the situation of women, including equality
between women and men;
(c)
Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters.
* For the discussion, see chaps. VI and VII.
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