E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 D. Agenda and organization of work 8. At its 2nd meeting, on 27 February, the Commission adopted its agenda as contained in document E/CN.6/2012/1. The agenda read as follows: 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twentythird 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: the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges; (ii) Review theme: financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women; (b) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men: engaging young women and men, and girls and boys, to advance gender equality; (c) Gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters. 4. Communications concerning the status of women. 5. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. 6. Provisional agenda for the fifty-seventh session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-sixth session. 9. Also at the 2nd meeting, the Commission approved its organization of work, as contained in document E/CN.6/2012/1/Add.1. E. Appointment of the members of a working group on communications on the status of women 10. Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/27, the Commission established a working group to consider communications concerning the status of women. In accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 2009/16, the following five members, nominated by their regional groups, were appointed to the working group of the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh sessions: Ms. Li Xiaomei (China) Ms. Fatima Alfeine (Comoros) Mr. Ruben Armando Escalante Hasbún (El Salvador) Ms. Noa Furman (Israel) Mr. Grigory Lukiyantsev (Russian Federation) 12-27405 49