6. Calls upon the Secretary-General to mandate the United Nations Observer Mission to South Africa to continue to monitor and report on the incidents of political and domestic violence directed against women and children in South Africa; 7. Decides that the Commission on the Status of Women should remain seized of the question of women and children in South Africa; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. DRAFT RESOLUTION III Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women* The Economic and Social Council, Bearing in mind that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 8/ is a key international human rights instrument for the promotion of equality between women and men, Welcoming the growing number of States parties to the Convention, which now stands at one hundred thirty-one, Noting with deep concern that the Convention is still one of the human rights instruments with a large number of reservations, many of which run contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention, despite the fact that some States parties have withdrawn their reservations to it, Also noting the suggestions and recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in accordance with its mandate, as demonstrated most recently by the Committee at its thirteenth session, at which the Committee adopted suggestion No. 6 on the International Conference on Population and Development and general recommendation No. 21 relating to articles 9, 15 and 16 of the Convention as its contribution to the International Year of the Family, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 9/ adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna in June 1993, in which the Conference stipulated that the human rights of women and of the girl child were an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights, Recalling also that in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Conference recommended the adoption of new procedures to strengthen implementation of the commitment to women’s equality and human rights, including a call upon the Commission on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to quickly examine the possibility * For the discussion, see chap. III. 8/ General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex. 9/ Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Part I)), chap. III. -5-