Wide-ranging resolutions on status of women.

• Position: UN

The Commission on the Status of Women, at its session from 28 February to 11 March 2005 at UN Headquarters in New York, adopted ten resolutions on improving women's status, including six new texts on gender mainstreaming in national policies and programmes; the possible appointment of a special rapporteur on discrimination against women; trafficking; integrating a gender perspective in post-disaster relief, particularly in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster; indigenous women; and women's economic advancement. Chaired by Kyung-wha Kang of the Republic of Korea, the Commission also adopted four traditional resolutions on women and HIV/AIDS, the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, and the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women.

Focusing on the Beijing agenda, the 45-member Commission held a ministerial-level debate that culminated on 4 March in the consensus adoption of a declaration by which Governments emphasized that the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was essential to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those of the Millennium Declaration.

In a resolution on women's economic advancement, the Commission called upon Member States to create an enabling environment for all women entrepreneurs and those...