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. The situation of and assistance to Palestinian women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on thematic issues 8 Draft decisions for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 I. Election of the Bureau of the Commission on the Status of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 II. Communications concerning the status of women: communications procedure . . . . . 17 III. Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-sixth session and the provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . 17 Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resolution 46/1. Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resolution 46/2. Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Resolution 46/3. Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Decision 46/101. Further organizational matters of the Commission on the Status of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Decision 46/102. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Decision 46/103. Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women under agenda items 3 and 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 II. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 III. 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” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 IV. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 V. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 VI. Provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 VII. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-sixth session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 B. C. iii