Provisional Agenda
Schedule of Side Events
Official Documents
Panels
Statements
Press Releases
Resolutions and Decisions

The forty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women was held from 4-15 March 2002, at New York Headquarters. At this session the Commission considered the following two thematic issues:

1. Eradicating poverty, including through the empowerment of women throughout their life cycle in a globalizing world; and
2. Environmental management and mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective.
   

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Official Documents

All documents are in PDF format

• E/2002/27 -- Commission on the Status of Women, Report on the forty-sixth session
  
  E/CN.6/2002/2 -- "Measures taken and progress achieved in the follow-up to and implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender-equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century", especially in mainstreaming a gender perspective in the entities of the United Nations system", Rolling Report of the Secretary General, 14 January 2002
  
  E/CN.6/2002/4 -- Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts,
  Report of the Secretary-General, 18 December 2001
  
  E/CN.6/2002/3 -- Situation of and Assistance to Palestinian women,
  Report of the Secretary-General, 4 January 2002
  
  E/CN.6/2002/5 -- Discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan,
  Report of the Secretary-General, 28 January 2002
  
  E/CN.4/2002/82-E/CN.6/2002/6 -- Joint work plan of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
  Report of the Secretary-General, 21 December 2001
  
  E/CN.6/2002/7 -- Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system
  Report of the Secretary-General, 6 February 2002
  See also:
  • Table 1 - Gender distribution of all Professional and higher-level staff with appointments of one year or more in the United Nations Secretariat, by department or office and by grade , as of 30 November 2001 (due to PDF file restrictions, the table will download with the title, Table 15)
  • Table 2 - Gender distribution of all Professional and higher-level staff with appointments subject to geographical distribution in the United Nations Secretariat, by department or office and by grade, as of 30 November 2001 (due to PDF file restrictions, the table will download with the title, Table 19)
  
  E/CN.6/2002/9 -- Thematic issues before the Commission on the Status of Women,
  Report of the Secretary-General, 3 January 2002
  
  E/CN.6/2002/10 -- Letter dated 8 October 2001 from the President of the Economic and Social Council to the Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women,
  14 December 2001
  
  E/CN.6/2002/11 -- Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions,
  Note by the Secretariat, 30 November 2001
  
  E/CN.6/2002/12 -- Report of the Secretary-General assessing the implications of the reforms of mechanisms in the human rights area (1503 procedure) for communications concerning the status of women., 9 January 2002
  
  
• E/CN.6/2002/NGO/13 -- Statement submitted by Human Rights Advocates International, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council., 8 February 2002
  

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Panels

• Panel I - Eradicating Poverty, including through the empowerment of women throughout their life cycle in globalizing world
  
  
  • Agreed Conclusions (starts at page 8 of E/2002/27 - CSW Report on the 46th session)
  
  
• Panel II - Environmental management and mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective
  
  
  • Agreed Conclusions (starts at page 12 of E/2002/27 - CSW Report on the 46th session)
  
  
  

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Statements

• 4 March 2002 - Introductory Statement by Ms. Angela King, Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
  
  
• 4 March 2002 - Statement by Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Director
  Division for the Advancement of Women
  

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Press Releases

• [25 March 2002] CONSENSUS RESOLUTION ON WOMEN AND GIRLS IN AFGHANISTAN APPROVED BY WOMEN'S COMMISSION, AS IT CONCLUDES FORTY-SIXTH SESSION.
  
  
• [15 March 2002] WOMEN'S COMMISSION ADOPTS AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON POVERTY, NATURAL DISASTERS, AS IT ADJOURNS FORTY-SIXTH SESSION.
  Fails to Act on Afghanistan Resolution
  
  
• [15 March 2002] COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN APPROVES THREE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS, TWO DECISIONS, INCLUDING TEXTS ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN WOMEN, WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS
  
  
• [11 March 2002] WOMEN’S COMMISSION HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT TEXTS CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINE, HIV/AIDS, HOSTAGES, GENDER POLICIES
  
  
• [8 March 2002] INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS URGE STATES TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO END IMMUNITY FOR VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS
  
  
• [7 March 2002] WOMEN'S COMMISSION DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CHANGES TO THE REPORTING PROCEDURES ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
  
  
• [7 March 2002] COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONSIDERS FOLLOW-UP TO 2001 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SESSION
  Also Briefed by Population, Sustainable Development Divisions
  
  
• [6 March 2002] EXPERT PANEL EXAMINES LINKS BETWEEN EMPOWERING WOMEN, ERADICATING POVERTY IN COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN
  
  
• [6 March 2002] IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT STRESSED, AS WOMEN'S COMMISSION HOLDS SECOND EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
  
  
• [5 March 2002] REDRESSING 'POWER EQUATION' BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN, ERADICATING WOMEN'S POVERTY, AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED, AS WOMEN'S COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DISCUSSION
  
  
• [4 March 2002] WOMEN’S POVERTY, EMPOWERMENT MUST BE ADDRESSED TO MEET DEVELOPMENT GOALS, COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN TOLD, AS 46TH SESSION OPENS
  
  
• [1 March 2002] COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN TO MEET FROM 4 TO 15 MARCH; MAIN THEMES CONCERN POVERTY, ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL DISASTERS
  

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Resolutions and Decisions

Resolutions

(Please note: the following documents are excerpts from the final report of CSW, E/2002/27. Documents are in PDF format.)

• Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts
  
  
• The situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
  
  
• Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
  
  
• Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan
  
  
• Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system
  

Decisions on:

• Election of the Bureau of the Commission on the Status of Women
  
  
• Further organizational matters of the Commission on the Status of Women
  
• Communications concerning the status of women
  

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