The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) will convene an expert group meeting on "The role of national mechanisms in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women: achievements, gaps and challenges" which will be hosted by the Government of Italy, in Rome, from 29 November to 2 December 2004.

The findings and conclusions of the meeting will provide inputs for the work of the forty-ninth session of the of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005 that will focus on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century".

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