Commission on the Status of Women-Follow-up to Beijing and Beijing + 5

42nd Session
2-13 March 1998

Official Documents
Expert Group meetings
Panels

The CSW 42^nd session was held at UN Headquarters 2-13 March 1998.

At this session the Commission monitored the implementation of the following critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action: The Girl-child, Women and Armed Conflict, Violence against Women, and Human Rights of Women as well as continue its work on an Optional Protocol to CEDAW. The Commission also considered the emerging issue: Ageing Women and conduct a mid-term review of the UN System-wide medium term plan on women and development.
Official Documents

CSW report on the forty-second session

E/CN.6/1998/1 Provisional Agenda

Report of the Secretary-General on thematic issues before the CSW

E/CN.6/1998/6 Report of the Secretary-General on national action plans and strategies for implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

E/CN.6/1998/3 Report of the Secretary-General on the midterm review of the system-wide medium-term plan for the Advancement of Women, 1996-2001

Report of the Secretary-General on emerging issues: Older women and support systems

E/CN.6/1998/2 Report of the Secretary-General on follow-up to the FWCW: review of gender mainstreaming in the organizations of the UN system (Add 1 & Add 2)

E/CN.6/1998/7 Report of the Secretary-General containing an annotated comparison of the draft optional protocol and the proposed amendments thereto with the provisions of existing international human rights instruments

E/CN.6/1998/10 Note by the Secretariat on high-level plenary review in the year 2000

E/CN.6/1998/8 Report of the Secretary-General on the improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat

E/CN.6/1998/11 Report of the Secretary-General on women's real enjoyment of their human rights, in particular those relating to the elimination of poverty, economic development and economic resources

Agreed Conclusions

(The following documents are in PDF format)

WOMEN AND ARMED CONFLICT

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Expert Group Meetings

The following four Expert Group Meetings were held by UNDAW in preparation for the 42^nd session of CSW:

Expert Group Meeting: "Adolescent Girls and their Rights"
(Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13-17 Oct. 1997). See the Aide Memoire and Report

Expert Group Meeting: "Gender-based Persecution"
(Toronto, Canada, 9 - 12 November 1997). See the Aide Memoire and Report

Expert Group Meeting: "Promoting Women's Enjoyment of their Economic and Social Rights" (Turku, Finland, 1 - 4 December 1997). See the Aide Memoire and Report

Expert Group Meeting: "Ageing Women and Care"
(Valleta, Malta, 30 November-2 December 1997). See the Aide Memoire and Report

Panels:

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Panel I: Human Rights of Women, Tues, 3 March, p.m.

Panel II: The Girl Child, Wed. 4 March, a.m.

Panel III: Women and Armed Conflict, Wed. 4 March p.m.

Panel IV: Violence against Women, Thurs. 5 March, p.m.

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