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52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women - Feb. 25 - March 7, 2008
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The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 25 February to 7 March 2008. The theme of CSW this year was financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women and the emerging issue was gender perspectives on climate change.

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Agreed conclusions and resolutions
Concusions on financing for gender equality and empowerment; women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS, assistance to Palestinian women; ending female genital mutilation.
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 Women, commitments and impotence
The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting noting that "global commitments to achieve gender equality and women empowerment have not yet been implemented."
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 U.N. confident of new agency for women
As the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded its two-week session in New York Friday, United Nations officials remain hopeful that the proposal for a new U.N. agency for women would become a reality.
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News Reports
U.N. confident of new agency for women
 Women must participate in all aspects of climate change debate
 U.N.'s main women's body remains leaderless
 NGOs call to end HIV AIDS and violence against women and girls. NOW!
 Meeting of parliamentarians on financing for gender equality and women's empowerment
 Latin America and the Caribbean Caucus meeting
 Event on women's housing rights
 NGOs submitt annotations for the agreed conclusion on financing for gender equality
 For a stronger gender equality architecture reform (GEAR) at the UN
 Dialogues are on and many ministers arrive for discussions
 DAWN panel: What happened to financing for gender equality?
 Opening of the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
 Launch of the gender equality architecture reform campaign
 Blogging the Comission on the Status of Women
 Gender equality gets a drop of the funding bucket
 UNFPA to call for higher investments in women during UN global meeting
 The ins and outs of NGO participation by the International Women's Tribune Centre
 Calendar of parallel events organised by NGOs
 UN budgeting bypasses women
 		Agreed conclusions and resolutions
 Women, commitments and impotence
 New gender equity index 2008
 Women prepare policy options for CSW negotiations (pdf)
 Paper on strengthening the UN's gender architecture in the UN system (PDF)
 Aid effectiveness and women's rights series by AWID
 Press conference on financing for development and gender equality
 WEDO's resource page on Gender and financing for development

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