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News & Events - 2004

November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
  • Opening statement by Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women and Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
  • CSW 2005 Review and Appraisal
    The Division for the Advancement of Women, in collaboration with the UN regional commissions, has prepared a questionnaire to compile information from Governments on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the Twenty-third Special Session of the General Assembly (2000). The deadline for responses to this questionnaire is 30 April 2004.

  • Meeting-cum-Training on Strengthening the capacity of national machineries through the effective use of ICTs, 19 to 23 Apr 2004, Namibia

March 2004
  • Swaziland acceeds to CEDAW
    On 26 March 2004, Swaziland acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, bringing the total number of States parties to 177.


  • On 18 March 2004, Ms. Gertrude Mongella was elected president of Africa's first pan-continental parliament.

  • Kiribati acceeds to CEDAW
    On 17 March 2004, Kiribati acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, bringing the total number of States parties to 176

  • CSW concludes its forty-eighth session
    The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded its forty-eighth session on 12 March 2004 with the adoption of agreed conclusions of the two themes of the session.


  • The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) has selected "Women and HIV/AIDS" as this year's theme for International Women's Day. for the archived webcast of the panel discussion which took place at Conference Room 2 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.


February 2004
January 2004