CSW 60 – Draft Agreed Conclusions
12 February 2016 Draft presented by CSW Bureau
Commission on the Status of Women 60th Session - 14 – 24 March 2016
Women’s Empowerment and The Link to Sustainable Development
Draft Agreed Conclusions
1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women. (CSW 58 AC, para 1, updated)
2. The Commission reaffirms that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as well as other relevant conventions and treaties provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and their human rights. (Based on CSW58 AC, para 2, and E/CN.6/2016/3, paras 15 and 47)
3. The Commission reaffirms the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made at relevant United Nations summits and conferences, and in particular the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda and the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.
4. The Commission reaffirms that the Beijing Platform for Action, together with the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits, laid a solid foundation for sustainable development and helped to shape the new Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/70/1, para 11) that will leave no one behind.
5. The Commission welcomes the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and reaffirms that realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. The achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied its full human rights and opportunities. (A/RES/70/1, parts of para 20)
6. The Commission notes the universal context of gender equality and recognizes that no country has achieved equality for women and girls and significant levels of inequality between women and men persist. (based on CSW58 AC, para 12, and CSW59 Political Declaration, para 4)
7. The Commission stresses the urgency of full, effective and accelerated implementation, and emphasizes that the national implementation of the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development must contribute to the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. (based on E/CN.6/2016/3, paras 13 and 48) The systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is crucial. (A/RES/70/1, para 20)
8. In order to ensure that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development delivers fully for women and girls and that its gains are irreversible (A/RES/70/1, para 53), the Commission calls on States to: strengthen normative, legal and policy frameworks; enhance national institutional arrangements; foster enabling environments for financing gender equality and women’s empowerment; strengthen women’s leadership and support women’s civil society organizations; and strengthen gender-responsive data collection, follow-up and review, monitoring and accountability processes……..
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