CSW-56

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012.

Priority theme:
The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges

Review theme:
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from the fifty-second session)

Emerging issue:
Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality