Commission on Status of Women

Forty-fifth Session

6^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION PANEL ON WOMEN AND AIDS DISCUSSES RELATIONS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN,

NEED FOR TREATMENT ACCESS, AND QUESTION OF AIDS TESTING

During an expert panel discussion this afternoon on “Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS”, the Commission on the Status of Women was told that the disease was a relational issue and thus a gender and human security issue.

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-fifth Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONSIDERS WORK PROGRAMME

FOR PERIOD 2002-2006

The Commission on the Status of Women met this afternoon and considered a draft proposal on its multi-year programme of work for the period 2002-2006 entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”.

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-fifth Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-fifth Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN OPENS FORTY-FIFTH

SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-fifth Session

2^nd Meeting (PM)

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY MUST BE KEY FACET OF STRATEGY TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION,

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN TOLD

Background Release

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 6 – 16 MARCH;

THEMATIC ISSUES:  HIV/AIDS; GENDER, ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-fourth Session

508^th Meeting (PM)

MONITORING BODY FOR WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION

CONCLUDES THREE-WEEK HEADQUARTERS SESSION

Considers Reports of Burundi, Egypt, Finland,

Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Uzbekistan

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-fourth Session

507^th Meeting (PM)

UZBEKISTAN RESPONDS TO OVER 100 QUESTIONS AS WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION

COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF ITS REPORT

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-fourth Session

506^th Meeting (AM)

WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, FAMILY VIOLENCE, DIVORCE AMONG ISSUES

DISCUSSED, AS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF MALDIVES

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

504^th & 505^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, FAMILY PLANNING DISCUSSED AS WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION

COMMITTEE CONSIDERS MONGOLIA'S REPORT ON CONVENTION COMPLIANCE