Latest documents:

Caucus statements

African caucus statement

GSWG submission: Suggested Additions to the Draft Agreed conclusions submitted by the Bureau of the CSW (MS Word doc, 42 KB)

Onsite reports

Journalist from Isis International/Manila, Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, was in New York as part of a team of gender and media advocates who came to participate in the 47th Session of the CSW. Mavic and Muthoni Wanyeki of FemNet/Kenya came directly from the AMARC seminar in Kathmandu, Nepal that focused on community radio. Others came straight from the World Summit on the information Society (WSIS) PrepCom 2 in Geneva. Her reports follow here:

Report 1: CSW delegates defer deliberation on contentious points

Report 2: CSW delegates compromise on a few points, continue debates on others

Report 3: Media, and information and communication technologies discussions at the CSW

Report 4: CSW Chair suspends session; no agreed conclusions were adapted for the theme women's human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls

Official agreed conclusions

Advance unedited version.

Other documents prepared by the GSWG

The "Seven Musts": Priority Issues for Gender Equality in the WSIS Process

ACTION ITEMS for Gender Equality in the Information Society

Links

UN Commission on the Status of Women: official website

Womenspace Forum, New York: reports, news, multimedia, partipatory online discussions etc.