Important Roles and Responsibilities of the Members of the CSW: Women's Equal Participation in Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution and Peace-building

Members of the Commission on the Status of Women, 48th Session, 1-12 March 2004

Ø Facilitator of the language negotiations on the Agreed Conclusions on women's equal participation
X Friends of UNSC Resolution 1325 (might be missing a few)
# Member of the Security Council (current)
± Member of the Security Council when UNSC Res 1325 was unanimously adopted
^ Has come in front of the CEDAW Committee since the adoption of UNSC Res 1325
= Sponsor of the UN Commission on Human Rights resolution on violence against women
* Sponsored 58th Session General Assembly resolution on women’s political participation
+ Sponsored 58th Session General Assembly resolution on violence against women
¶ Co-sponsoring the 48th Session CSW resolution on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system
› Sponsoring the 48th Session CSW resolution on women and children hostages
° Co-sponsoring (as the G-77) the 48th Session CSW resolution on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
µ Co-sponsoring (as the European Union) the 48th Session CSW resolution on the situation of and assistance to Afghani women


Algeria # °
Argentina ^ ± °
Armenia ^
Azerbaijan › (Vice-Chair of Bureau)
Belgium ^ µ
Benin # °
Bolivia °
Botswana Ø ° (Vice-Chair of Bureau)
Brazil # ^ °
Burkina Faso °
Canada X ^ = ± (Vice-Chair of Bureau)
Chile X # °
Congo ^ °
China # ± °
Croatia X
Cuba °
Denmark ^ µ
Dominican Republic °
Gabon °
Germany X # ^ µ
Guatemala ^ °
Guinea X ^ °
India °
Indonesia °
Iran (Islamic Republic of) °
Japan X ^
Kyrgyzstan ^
Malawi °
Malaysia °
Netherlands X + ^ ± µ
Nicaragua ^ °
Nigeria ^ °
Pakistan # °
Peru ^ ° (Vice-Chair of Bureau)
Republic of Korea X (Chair of Bureau)
Russian Federation # ^ ±
South Africa X °
Sudan °
Thailand °
Tunisia ^ ± °
Turkey
United Arab Emirates °
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland X #± µ ¶
United Republic of Tanzania X °
United States of America X # * ±

X, #, ±: S/RES/1325, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, 31 October 2000
^: Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), 18 December 1979
=: E/CN.4/RES/2003/45, UN Commission on Human Rights resolution on violence against women
* : A/RES/58/142, UN General Assembly Resolution on women and political participation, 6 November 2003
+: A/RES/58/185, UN General Assembly Resolution on violence against women, 22 December 2003