E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 1. Condemns violent acts in contravention of international humanitarian law against civilian women and children in areas of armed conflict, and calls for an effective response to such acts, including the immediate release of such women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts; 2. Strongly urges all parties to armed conflicts to respect fully the norms of international humanitarian law in armed conflict and to take all necessary measures for the protection of these women and children and for their immediate release; 3. Urges all parties to armed conflicts to provide safe unimpeded access to humanitarian assistance for these women and children; 4. Requests the Secretary-General and all relevant international organizations to use their capabilities and efforts to facilitate the release of these women and children; 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to prepare, taking into account the information provided by States and relevant international organizations, a report on the implementation of the present resolution for submission to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-sixth session. Resolution 45/2 Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system* The Commission on the Status of Women , Affirming that gender mainstreaming constitutes a critical strategy in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action 43 and the outcome of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly 44 and for achieving the overall goal of gender equality, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/6 of 22 July 1996, in which the Council decided that the Commission on the Status of Women would have a catalytic role on mainstreaming a gender perspective in policies and programmes and would identify issues where United Nations system-wide coordination needed to be improved in order to assist the Council in its coordination, Recalling also its resolution 41/6 of 21 March 1997 45 on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system, Recalling further Economic and Social Council agreed conclusions 1997/246 on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system, in which there was a call for immediate and concrete steps to mainstream a gender perspective, including the implementation of agreed conclusions 1997/2 as a matter of urgency and at the latest by the time of the fiveyear review of the Beijing Platform for Action in 2000, __________________ * 43 44 45 46 For the discussion, see chap. III. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 ( U n i t e d Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. See General Assembly resolutions S-23/2, annex, and S-23/3, annex. Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 7 ( E / 1 9 9 7 / 2 7 ) , chap. I, sect. C. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/52/3/Rev.1). 23