Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Implementation of the strategic objectives in the critical areas of concern -- Fortieth session. Poverty -- Women and the media -- Forty-first session. Women and the environment -- Women in power and decision-making -- Women and the economy -- Education and training of women -- Forty-second session. Violence against women -- Women and armed conflict -- Human rights of women -- The girl child -- Forty-third session. Women and health -- Institutional mechanisms -- Forty-fourth session -- Forty-fifth session. Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Gender and all forms of discrimination, in particular racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance -- Forty-sixth session. Eradicating poverty, including through the empowerment of women throughout their life cycle, in a globalizing world -- Environmental management and the mitigation of natural disasters -- Forty-seventh session. Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women -- Forty-eighth session. The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality -- Women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and resolution in post-conflict peace-building -- Forty-ninth session.