Women and gender issues

8 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1128

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME FOR CURRENT SESSION

19990608

Committee Chairperson Reports on Inter-sessional Activities; Minister for Insurance and Social Affairs of Egypt Addresses Committee

7 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1126

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS TWENTY-FIRST SESSION

19990607 Day-long Celebration Held To Commemorate Twentieth Anniversary of Women's Anti-Discrimination Convention

4 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1125

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TO HOLD TWENTY-FIRST SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

19990604 Background Release

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the only United Nations human rights treaty-monitoring body concerned exclusively with women, will convene the second of its two annual sessions at Headquarters from 7 to 25 June.

1 April 1999

Press Release
WOM/1124

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONCLUDES FORTY-THIRD SESSION

19990401 Agreed Conclusions on Women and Health, Institutional Mechanisms, Resolutions on Women and Girls in Afghanistan, Women and Mental Health Adopted

19 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1123

PREPARATORY BODY FOR SPECIAL SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON WOMEN 2000 CONCLUDES SECOND SESSION

19990319 Draft Resolution Approved Reaffirms Special Session Will Not Renegotiate Beijing Platform for Action

18 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1122

16 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1120

15 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1118

15 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1119

STRUGGLE FOR GENDER EQUALITY IS STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2000 SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION TOLD

19990315 Committee Hears Panellists on Further Actions and Initiatives for Special Session on Women

12 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1116

WOMEN'S COMMISSION URGES GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN WOMEN'S ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE TO BETTER PROTECT THEM FROM HIV INFECTION

19990312 Text on Rights of Palestinian Women Approved by Vote of 33-1-4