Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-third session, 2– 13 March 2009: Agreed Conclusions

1.The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and the declaration adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

2. The Commission reaffirms the outcomes of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, the 2000 Millennium Summit, the 2002 World Summit on Children, the 2002 Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development and recalls the 2005 World Summit, and recognizes further that their full and effective implementation is essential to achieve the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS.

3. The Commission reiterates that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and their Optional Protocols, as well as other conventions and treaties provide a legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for the promotion of equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men.