For each Congress, the Secretary General drafts an International Programme of work in cooperation with the Executive Committee. This programme sets the framework on the work of the Secretariat and the National Sections until next Congress. In 2011, Congress adopted an expanded, and somewhat different International Programme, which the Secretariat was to implement in the period 2011-2014.
Our latest report provides tools and guidelines for effective implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty and the UN Programme of Action on small arms and light weapons provisions related to gender-based violence.
The 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) took place at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March, 2016. The priority theme this year was "Women’s Empowerment and the Link to Sustainable Development.”
