CSW70 official meetings

The Commission on the Status of Women’s two-week session includes the following activities: Proposed organization of work. Open meetings are being webcast on UN Web TV.

(Note: All times indicated are Eastern Daylight Time [EDT].)

First week

Monday, 9 March

10 am – 1 pm – Opening of the session and ministerial segment – General Assembly Hall

• Election of officers (Item 1)
• Adoption of the provisional agenda and other organizational matters (Item 2)
• Ministerial segment – Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: Gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (Item 3)
  • Opening statements
  • Introduction of reports
  • Adoption of the draft agreed conclusions
• General discussion (Item 3)

3–6 pm – Ministerial segment (continued) – General Assembly Hall

• General discussion (Item 3) (continued)

Tuesday, 10 March

Ministerial segment (continued)

• 10 am – 1 pm – Round table on the priority theme: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers (Item 3 (a) (i)) – Conference Room 4
• 3–6 pm – General discussion (Item 3) (continued) – General Assembly Hall

Wednesday, 11 March

Ministerial segment (continued)

• 10 am – 1 pm – Round table on focus area: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all older women (Item 3 (a) (i)) – Conference Room 4
• 1 pm – Deadline for submission of proposals under agenda Item 3 to the Secretariat
• 3–6 pm – General discussion (Item 3) (continued) – General Assembly Hall

Thursday, 12 March

Ministerial segment (continued) – Conference Room 4

• 10 am – 1 pm – High-level meeting – Violence against women and girls (Item 3 (a) (i))
  • High-level meeting – Violence against women and girls – Speaker bios
• 3–6 pm – High-level meeting – Violence against women and girls (Item 3 (a) (i)) (continued)

Friday, 13 March

Ministerial segment (continued) – Conference Room 4

• 10 am – 1pm – Voluntary presentations by Member States on the review theme: Women’s full and effective participation and decision making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls (Item 3 (a) (ii))
• 3–6 pm – Voluntary presentations by Member States on the review theme: Women’s full and effective participation and decision making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls (Item 3 (a) (ii)) (continued)

Note: The Bureau recommends that the ministerial segment conclude on Friday, 13 March 2026, at 6 pm.

Second week

Monday, 16 March

• 10 am – 1 pm – Interactive expert panel on the priority theme: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers (Item 3 (a) (i)) – Conference Room 4
  • Interactive expert panel on the priority theme – Speaker bios
• 3–6 pm – Interactive dialogue among youth representatives on the priority theme: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers (Item 3 (a) (i)) – Conference Room 4
  • Interactive dialogue among youth representatives on the priority theme – Speaker bios

Tuesday, 17 March

• 10 am – 1 pm – General discussion (Item 3) (resumed) – Conference Room 4
• 3–6 pm – General discussion (Item 3) (continued) – Conference Room 4

Wednesday, 18 March               

• 10 ~ 10.15 am – Communications concerning the status of women (Item 4) – Consideration of the report of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women (closed meeting) – Conference Room 4
• ~10.15 am – 1pm – General discussion (Item 3) (resumed) – Conference Room 4
• 3–6 pm – General discussion (Item 3) (continuation and conclusion) – Conference Room 4

Thursday, 19 March              

10 am – 1 pm – Conference Room 4

• Introduction of draft proposals (Item 3)
• Action on draft proposals (Item 3)
• Statements in connection with the draft agreed conclusions (Item 3)
• Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions (Item 5)
• Action on any other outstanding issues
  • Provisional agenda for the seventy-first session of the Commission (Item 6)
  • Adoption of the report of the Commission on its seventieth session (Item 7)
• Closure of the seventieth session

Seventy-first session

• Opening of the seventy-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women
• Election of the Bureau of the seventy-first session