CONTENTS
Chapter
I.
Page
MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR
BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION .........................................
7
A.
7
Draft resolutions ............................................
I.
Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat ..
7
II.
Draft declaration on the elimination of violence against
women ..................................................
9
III.
Communications on the status of women ..................
16
IV.
Women, environment and development .....................
17
V.
Women and children under apartheid .....................
20
VI.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women ...........................
22
Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women .......
23
Draft decisions ..............................................
24
VII.
B.
I.
Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its
thirty-seventh session and provisional agenda and
documentation for the thirty-eighth session of the
Commission .............................................
24
Inter-sessional working group of the Commission on the
Status of Women on the Platform for Action of the Fourth
World Conference on Women: Action for Equality,
Development and Peace ..................................
27
Resolutions of the Commission brought to the attention of the
Council ......................................................
27
II.
C.
37/1.
Preliminary proposals for the system-wide medium-term
plan for the advancement of women for the period
1996-2001 .............................................
28
37/2.
Inter-agency coordination .............................
31
37/3.
Rape and abuse of women in the territory of the former
Yugoslavia ............................................
32
37/4.
World Conference on Human Rights ......................
33
37/5.
Women and legal literacy ..............................
37
37/6.
Women and development .................................
39
37/7.
Preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women:
Action for Equality, Development and Peace ............
42
Women in extreme poverty ..............................
48
37/8.
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