SUMMARY At its thirty-seventh session, the Commission on the Status of Women recommended to the Economic and Social Council the adoption of seven draft resolutions and two draft decisions. In draft resolution I (Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat), the Council would urge the Secretary-General to fully implement the action programme contained in his report (A/47/508) in order to remove the obstacles to the improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat and to achieve the targets set for the participation of women in the Secretariat. It would also request the Secretary-General to further develop policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harassment in the Secretariat. In draft resolution II (Draft declaration on the elimination of violence against women), the Council would urge the General Assembly to adopt the draft declaration, urge Member States to adopt, strengthen and enforce legislation prohibiting violence against women, and request the Secretary-General to report on implementation of the declaration, once adopted. In draft resolution III (Communications on the status of women), the Council would request the Secretary-General to continue to publicize the communications mechanism of the Commission and to report thereon to the Commission at its thirty-eighth session. It would invite each regional group to appoint, one week before each session of the Commission, a member to the Working Group on Communications. In draft resolution IV (Women, environment and development), the Council would urge the Commission on Sustainable Development and other bodies to develop appropriate mechanisms to ensure support for the objectives and activities relating to the role of women in sustainable development, request the Secretary-General to include information on the subject in the report on the effective mobilization and integration of women in development, and request the Commission to include the issue in its discussions of preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women. The Council would also agree to review the current and planned activities of the Commission in order to assess the degree to which the recommendations in Agenda 21 were already included in its activities or could be included in future activities. In draft resolution V (Women and children under apartheid), the Council would demand the immediate and unconditional release of any political prisoners and detainees, urge those involved in the multi-party forum to deal with issues concerning women, request the Centre against Apartheid to strengthen its cooperation with the Division for the Advancement of Women, appeal to the international community to support programmes and projects directed towards women, call upon the Secretary-General to monitor incidents of political and domestic violence directed against women and children, decide that the Commission would remain seized of the issue, and request the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its thirty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the resolution. In draft resolution VI (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), the Council would support the request of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for additional meeting time for its future sessions, welcome its draft general recommendation on article 16 and related articles 9 and 15, request States parties to the Convention to work to withdraw their reservations to the Convention, and urge -2-