Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Voluntary National Reviews for the HLPF 15-16 December 2016, United Nations Headquarters, New York

The report below includes details of the meeting organized by the Expert Group Meeting on Voluntary National Reviews for the HLPF to  share experiences and discuss challenges faced in the review process. 

HLPF 2016: Synthesis of Voluntary National Reviews

The 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) took place from 11 to 20 July 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Twenty-two countries presented voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and particularly the sustainable development goals (SDGs), over a day and a half during the Ministerial Segment of the HLPF under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Results of the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

The present note reflects the results, including decisions taken, of the sixtyfourth and sixty-fifth sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, held in Geneva from 4 to 22 July and from 24 October to 18 November 2016, respectively.

Input to the Work of the Economic and Social Council and the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

The present note provides a summary of the contribution that the work of the Commission on the Status of Women can make to the work of the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2017.

Input to the work of the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development

The present note provides a summary of the contribution that the work of the Commission on the Status of Women can make to the work of the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2017.

Report of UN Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women

The present report, prepared for the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women and the thirty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council, describes the impact and achievements of the Trust Fund in 2016.

CSW61: Proposed organisation of work

The Proposed organisation of work for the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women can be found below. 

CSW61: Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work

Provisional agenda:

1. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”:

WILPF Annual Report 2015

In 2015, WILPF celebrated 100 years of advocacy and activism for peace. We held our Centennial Congress in The Hague, the Netherlands, welcomed three new Sections, and adopted a renewed WILPF manifesto. Most importantly we organised the peace summit “Women’s Power to Stop War” gathering more than 1,000 peace activists from more than 80 different countries.

WILPF Report: 2016 High-Level Political Forum

Unfortunately, we are off to a to a rocky start in implementing Agenda 2030 on issues of gender equality and stable and peaceful societies. WILPF reminds states that there can be no development without disarmament and women’s full and equal participation and rights. Leaving no one behind also requires substantively inclusive processes.

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