Report to ARCC on the meeting of the forty first session of the commission on the status of women

Abstract

A mission to New York was undertaken from 10 - 21 March 1997. The objective of the mission was to participate in the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The CSW held its Forty first Session in New York from 10 - 21 March to consider the implementation of four of the twelve critical areas identified in the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA). The four critical areas included: Women and the Environment; Women in Power and Decision-Making; Women and the Economy and Education and Training of Women. In addition to the four critical areas of the Platform for Action, the Commission on the Status of Women also reviewed mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the United Nations as well as emerging issues affecting the situation of women.