Provisional Agenda 
Programme of Work
Panel Discussions
Schedule of Side Events
Statements
Press Releases
Official Documents
Agreed Conclusions
Resolutions and Decisions
Photo Gallery
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its forty-seventh session from 3 to 14 March 2003, at New York Headquarters. The Commission focused on two thematic issues:
- participation and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women; and
- women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls as defined in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome document of the Special Session for the General Assembly entitled “Women: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century.”.
A panel discussion on the first thematic issue was held on 3 March and on the second on 4 March. The Commission held for the first time a high-level round table on national experiences in institutional capacity building, in particular in relation to the two thematic issues.
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- [25 March 2003] COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN FAILS TO ADOPT DRAFT AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, AS IT CLOSES FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION
- [14 March 2003] WOMEN’S COMMISSION ADOPTS AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON MEDIA, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TEXTS ON AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, HIV/AIDS
- [13 March 2003] WOMEN’S COMMISSION APPROVES TEXTS ON ASSESSING UN GENDER POLICIES, FUTURE WORK OF RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN
- [11 March 2003] WOMEN’S COMMISSION DRAFT TEXT URGES AFGHAN TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY TO REPEAL DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION, ENABLE WOMEN’S FULL CIVIC PARTICIPATION
- [10 March 2003] WOMEN’S COMMISSION ADOPTS PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR NEXT SESSION; TEXTS ON GENDER PERSPECTIVE, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, HIV/AIDS INTRODUCED
- [7 March 2003] POVERTY, HIV/AIDS, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CLEAR HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES HIGH COMMISSIONER TELLS WOMEN’S COMMISSION
- [7 March 2003] MILLENNIUM SUMMIT GOALS CAN BE REACHED ONLY BY INVESTMENT IN WORLD’S WOMEN, SAYS DEPUTY-SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVED AT HEADQUARTERS
- [6 March 2003] WOMEN’S ACCESS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED TO ERADICATE POVERTY, CREATE ECONOMICALLY JUST, DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD
- [5 March 2003] WOMEN’S SOCIAL, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY LEADS TO TRAFFICKING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION, SAY SPEAKERS IN WOMEN’S COMMISSION
- [4 March 2003] NATIONAL LEGISLATION, GOVERNMENT BODIES AIMED AT PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY FOCUS OF WOMEN’S COMMISSION ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
- [4 March 2003] BREAKING SILENCE, STRENGTHENING LEGISLATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN KEY ISSUES FOR WOMEN’S COMMISSION PANEL
- [3 March 2003] GENDER EQUALITY CENTRAL TO ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM SUMMIT DEVELOPMENT GOALS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD, AS FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION OPENS
- [28 February 2003] WOMEN’S COMMISSION WILL HOLD 47TH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 3-14 MARCH; FOCUS: WOMEN AND MEDIA; VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(The following documents are in PDF format.)
The following documents are excerpts from the final report of CSW, E/2003/27
[Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish in PDF  format]
Resolutions
- Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women [ A C E F R S ]
- Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) [ A C E F R S ]
- Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system [ A C E F R S ]
- Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan [ A C E F R S ]
Decisions
- Report of the Working Group on the future operation of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women [ A C E F R S ]
- Communications concerning the status of women [ A C E F R S ]
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