Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
"The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established as a functional
commission of the Economic and Social Council by Council resolution 11(II) of 21 June
1946 to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women?s
rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields. The Commission also
makes recommendations to the Council on urgent problems requiring immediate
attention in the field of women?s rights. The object of the Commission is to promote
implementation of the principle that men and women shall have equal rights. The
Commission?s mandate was expanded in 1987 by the Council in its resolution 1987/22.
Following the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, the general Assembly
mandated the Commission to integrate into its work programme a follow-up process to
the Conference, in which the Commission should play a catalytic role, regularly
reviewing the critical araes of concern in the Platform for Action..."
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of entry/update:
2011-01-04
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
Description:
Paper submitted to
the forty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women March 4-15, 2002 by
Women?s League of Burma (WLB). "...The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the root causes of poverty and environmental
degradation in Burma, and show how this has affected women and to give examples of how women are organizing themselves
to survive and create an enabling environment for political and social change, and for gender equality..."
Source/publisher:
Women?s League of Burma (WLB)
Date of publication:
2002-03-15
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Multiple threats
Language:
English
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