Contents Chapter I. Page Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention . . . . 1 A. Draft resolutions for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III. Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 IV. Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on women’s equal . participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Draft decision for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 B. Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-eighth session and the provisional agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Commission 16 C. Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Resolution 48/1. Revitalization and strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resolution 48/2. Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resolution 48/3. Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Resolution 48/4. Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Resolution 48/5. Preparations for the forty-ninth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Decision 48/101. Working methods of the Commission on the Status of Women . . . . . . . . 27 Decision 48/102. Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women under agenda item 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Decision 48/103. Future work of the Working Group on Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 III. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 IV. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 V. Provisional agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 II. iii