E/2014/27 E/CN.6/2014/15 Summary At its fifty-eighth session, the Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 2009/15, considered as its priority theme “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”; it also considered as its review theme “Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work”, evaluating progress in the implementation of the agreed conclusions from its fifty-fifth session. It further considered an emerging issue, “Women’s access to productive resources”. As part of its consideration of these themes, the Commission held one highlevel round table and five panel discussions. The Commission adopted agreed conclusions on the priority theme. These include references to existing commitments; assessments of the situation of women and girls in regard to each of the Millennium Development Goals; critical issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women that were not adequately addressed by the Millennium Development Goals; and factors that have held back the achievement of the Goals for women and girls. The Commission urges all stakeholders to take action in the following five areas: (a) Realizing women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights; (b) Strengthening the enabling environment for gender equality and the empowerment of women; (c) women; Maximizing investments in gender equality and the empowerment of (d) Strengthening the empowerment of women; evidence base for gender equality and the (e) Ensuring women’s participation and leadership at all levels and strengthening accountability. With respect to the post-2015 development agenda, the Commission calls for gender equality, the empowerment of women and human rights of women and girls to be reflected as a stand-alone goal and to be integrated through targets and indicators into all goals of any new development framework. It also calls for review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and for commemorative activities to be undertaken for the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. The Commission’s work on the priority theme and its agreed conclusions constitute an input to the 2014 annual ministerial review of the Economic and Social Council. In addition, the Commission adopted: (a) By a recorded vote, a resolution entitled “Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women”, for action by the Economic and Social Council; (b) A decision for adoption by the Council, entitled “Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-eighth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-ninth session of the Commission”; 14-02869 3/95