"and noting that, according to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, steps should be taken to increase cooperation and promote further
integration of objectives and goals between the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Commission on Human Rights, the Committee for the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, the United Nations Development Fund for
Women, the United Nations Development Programme and other United Nations
bodies";
(b)
A new first preambular paragraph was inserted, which read:
"Recalling all relevant resolutions, in particular General Assembly
resolution 44/77 of 8 December 1989, in which, inter alia, the Assembly
endorsed and reaffirmed the importance of the Nairobi Forward-looking
Strategies for the Advancement of Women for the period up to the year 2000
and set out measures for their immediate implementation and for the overall
achievement of the interrelated guidelines and objectives of the United
Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace";
(c) In operative paragraph 4, the words "Encourages the Centre for Human
Rights and the Division for the Advancement of Women to explore" were changed to
read: "Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for
Human Rights to explore";
(d)
Operative paragraph 5, which had read:
"5. Encourages the Centre for Human Rights to explore the possibility
of convening an expert group meeting to develop specific guidelines for
identifying, documenting and reporting on gender-based human rights
violations and ways in which to effectively integrate these questions into
the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations",
was deleted;
(e) In operative paragraph 6 (para. 5 of the final text), the words
"Recommends that the meeting of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies
consider on a regular basis at their biennial sessions" were replaced by the
words "Recommends that the regular meetings of chairpersons of human rights
treaty bodies consider on a regular basis".
37. At the same meeting, Ecuador, Egypt, 42/ Guinea-Bissau, Morocco 42/ and the
Philippines joined in sponsoring the revised draft resolution.
38. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as
orally revised (see chap I, sect. C, draft resolution 38/2).
Elimination of violence against women
39. At the 14th meeting, on 16 March 1994, the representative of the
Netherlands, on behalf of Argentina, 42/ Australia, Bahamas, Belarus,
Belgium, 42/ Bulgaria, Canada, 42/ Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire,
Denmark, 42/ Finland, France, Germany, 42/ Greece, 42/ Ireland, 42/ Israel, 42/
Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, 42/ the Netherlands, New Zealand, 42/ Norway, 42/
Portugal, 42/ the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, 42/
Thailand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 42/ the
United Republic of Tanzania, 42/ Venezuela and Zambia, introduced a draft
resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.10) entitled "Elimination of violence against women".
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