47th Session, New York 2003: UN CSW urges high participation of women at the World Summit on the Information Society but fails to adopt agreed conclusions on human rights and violence against women

Following intense debates and negotiations, the 47th Session of the Commission upon the Status of Women held in March 2003 in novel York, adopted by consensus its draft agreed conclusions upon one of the two themes of its in every one's mouth session--women's access to the media and information and communication technologies. It deferr conclusions for its next to the first theme, violence against women, until a later date.

Under the agreed conclusions, the Commission agreed that increasing women's access to and participation in the media and ICSs was vital for women's empowerment. It urg managements United Nations bodies, international financial institutions and civil