31. At the 5th meeting, on 4 March, the Commission held a panel discussion and dialogue on the girl child (agenda item 3 (c) (iv)). 32. Presentations were made by the following experts: Lina Bellosillo-Laigo, Secretary, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines; Sadig Rasheed, Director, Programme Division, United Nations Children’s Fund; Paloma Bonfil Sanchez, Executive Secretary, Grupo Interdisciplinario sobre Mujer, Trabajo y Pobreza (GIMTRAP), Mexico; and Margaret Vogt, Research Professor and Head, Strategic Studies Division, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. 33. At the 6th meeting, on 4 March, the Commission held a panel discussion and dialogue on women and armed conflict (agenda item 3 (c) (ii)). 34. Presentations were made by the following experts: Helga Hernes, Ambassador and Special Adviser, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway; Rafiga Azimova, research scientist, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan; Bernard Muna, International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States, between 1 January and 31 December 1994, Cameroon; and Hina Jilani, advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan. 35. At the 8th meeting, on 5 March, the Commission held a panel discussion and dialogue on violence against women (agenda item 3 (c) (i)). 36. Presentations were made by the following experts: Barbara Prammer, Federal Minister for Women’s Affairs and Consumer Protection, Austria; Bonnie Campbell, Head, Violence against Women Office, United States Justice Department, United States of America; Lisbeth Guevara, Professor of Law, and member, Commission against Domestic Violence of the National Women’s Council, Venezuela; and Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, Sri Lanka. 37. The principal elements emerging from the panel discussions were summarized by the moderators of the four panels, that is to say, the Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons of the Commission. The text was approved by the Commission for inclusion as an annex to its report on its forty-second session (see annex I to the present report); and was neither negotiated nor adopted by the Commission. ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION Human rights and land rights discrimination 38. At the 12th meeting, on 12 March, the observer for Zambia,1 on behalf of Austria,1 Belgium, Botswana,1 Canada,1 Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,1 Denmark,1 Ecuador,1 Finland,1 France, Ghana, Greece, Ireland,1 Italy,1 Kenya,1 Kyrgyzstan,1 Luxembourg,1 Malawi,1 Mauritius,1 Mozambique,1 Namibia,1 the Netherlands,1 Norway, Portugal, Saint Lucia, South Africa,1 Spain,1 Swaziland, Sweden,1 Turkey,1 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United Republic of Tanzania,1 Zambia1 and Zimbabwe,1 introduced a draft 1 In accordance with rule 69 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council. -49-