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Mar 14 '16 - Mar 24 '16
The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from March 14 to 24, 2016.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will attend the session.
See CSW60 Brochure
Priority theme:
Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development
Review theme:
The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (agreed conclusions from the fifty-seventh session)
The Commission’s two-week session includes the following activities:
Agreed conclusions
The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all States.
- Find: Draft agreed conclusions, as of February 12, 2016
Side events
The programme of side events, or activities organized outside the formal programme of the session of the Commission, provides an excellent opportunity for Member States, UN entities and NGOs to discuss themes of the Commission and other critical gender equality issues.
