Report to the Office for Women: 53rd UN Commission on the Status of Women

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29 June 2009The purpose of this paper is to inform the Australian Government position at the 53rd Commission on the Status of Women. 
 
WomenSpeak and Security 4 Women have worked collaboratively to prepare a response for the CSW. WomenSpeak and Security4Women co-hosted a preparatory round table in Canberra in October and a CSW training session in Melbourne in November 2008. WomenSpeak then developed the structure for this paper and prepared the first draft of this paper with comments on the draft provided from members of both Alliances.
 
This paper has four sections: 

a) recommendations for the development of the Agreed Conclusions on the priority theme; in doing so the report takes the format of the Agreed Conclusions into account, which includes two substantive sections
i. the identification of key issues
ii. the identification of actions that can be taken by Governments and other actors

b) recommendations for substantive matters to be raised in the Country Statement, including observations on the review theme; the review theme has been addressed in this section because the CSW does not adopt a separate set of Agreed Conclusions rather issues a summary discussion of the review theme session

c) reflections on process prior to, during and following on from CSW

d) common recommendations from the four Alliances