United Nations E/CN.6/2013/7
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: General
13 December 2012
Original: English
Commission on the Status of Women
Fifty-seventh session
4-15 March 2013
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”: implementation of strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern and further actions and initiatives
Proposals for priority themes for future sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women
Report of the Secretary-General
Summary
The present report, prepared in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 2009/15, makes suggestions for the future priority themes of the Commission and provides information to facilitate the Commission's discussion of the
possibility of conducting a review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 2015. In addition the report makes proposals for the Commission's consideration of the question of a review of its working methods.