The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012.
Main Themes:
Priority theme
The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges
The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges
Review theme
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from the fifty-second session)
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from the fifty-second session)
Emerging issue
Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality
Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality
Date
2012-02-27 - 2012-03-09
