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.
Main Themes:
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