Agenda item 28: Advancement of women
(a) Advancement of women
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
Trafficking in women and girls
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula
(b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
Measures taken and progress achieved in follow-up to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
Agenda item 113: Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
Strengthening the institutional arrangements for support of gender equality and the empowerment of women
Statements
Opening Statements:
- Introductory statement by Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships of UN Women Ms. Lakshmi Puri
- Introductory statement by Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Ms. Nicole Ameline
- Introductory statement by Deputy Executive Director (Management) of UNFPA Ms. Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen
Regional Groups:
- Algeria on behalf of the Group of 77 and China
- Chile on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
- Egypt on behalf of the Arab Group
- Guyana on behalf of the Caribbean Community
- Malawi on behalf of the Southern African Development Community
- Malaysia on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian States
- European Union
Member States:
- Algeria
- Angola
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Chile
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Haiti
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Lesotho
- Liechtenstein
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico [English | Spanish]
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Panama
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- Viet Nam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Observers:
UN Entities:
Other inter-governmental organizations:
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Inter-Parliamentary Union