Key official meetings

OPENING of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, March 12, 10am to 1pm, UN General Assembly (Live Webcast).

March 12: Ministerial Segment 4 Ministerial Round Tables on the priority theme. Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (in two parallel meetings).

Topic A. Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through access to education, infrastructure and technology, food security and nutrition.

Topic B: Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through prevention of genderbased violence and through access to justice, social services and health care.

March 13: High-level interactive dialogue among ministers on the priority theme ‘Building alliances to achieve gender equality and empower rural women and girls’.

March 13: High-level interactive dialogue on ‘Accelerating implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and achieving concrete results by 2020’.

March 14: Interactive dialogue on ‘Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.

March 14: Interactive dialogue on ‘Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women’ .

March 16: Interactive Expert Panel on ‘the role of rural women’s land rights and land tenure security in reaching the SDGs

March 16: Interactive Expert Panel on ‘innovative data approaches for measuring progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment.’

Entire list of official events available at: http://www. unwomen.org/en/csw/csw622018/official-meetings.All the above will also be webcast live at: http://www.unwomen. org/en/news/in-focus/csw/ webcasts; and http://webtv. un.org/