Live online screening of UN commission on the status of women

The fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from Tuesday, 22 February to Friday, 4 March 2011.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will attend the session.

Live Webcast will be available for the following sessions.
· Panel 1
Key policy initiatives and capacity-building on gender mainstreaming: focus on science and technology
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

· Panel 2
Key policy initiatives and capacity-building on gender mainstreaming: focus on education and training
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 3 - 6 p.m.

· Panel 3
Review theme: The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child
Evaluation of progress in the implementation of the agreed conclusions on “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”
Friday, 25 February 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

· Panel 4
Emerging Issue: Gender equality and sustainable development
Gender equality and sustainable development
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

· Panel 5
Elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and the empowerment of women
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 3 - 6 p.m.

· Panel on the priority theme of CSW 56 (2012)
The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 1.15 - 2.45 p.m.

For a list of delegations, panelists, and issues paper, please check the following website- http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/55sess.htm#priority