E/2000/27 E/CN.6/2000/9 4. Calls upon Israel to facilitate the return of all refugees and displaced Palestinian women and children to their homes and properties, in compliance with the relevant United Nations resolutions; Provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women 5. Urges Member States, financial organizations of the United Nations system, nongovernmental organizations and other relevant institutions to intensify their efforts to provide financial and technical assistance to Palestinian women, especially during the transitional period; 1. Adoption of the agenda organizational matters. 2. 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”. 6. Requests the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to monitor and take action with regard to the implementation of the Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, and the Beijing Platform for Action; other Documentation Report of the Secretary-General on measures taken and progress achieved in the 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”, and in mainstreaming a gender perspective within the United Nations system 7. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation and to assist Palestinian women by all available means, and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-fifth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. Report of the Secretary-General containing the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 2002-2005 B. Draft decision for adoption by the Council 2. The Commission on the Status of Women recommends to the Economic and Social Council the adoption of the following draft decision: and Report of the Secretary-General on proposals for a multi-year work programme of the Commission on the Status of Women, 2002-2005. 3. Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-fourth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fifth session of the Commission* The Economic and Social Council takes note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-fourth session, and approves the provisional agenda and documentation for the fortyfifth session of the Commission set out below. Thematic issues: (a) Women, the girl child and human immuno-deficiency virus/acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS); (b) Gender and all forms of discrimination, in particular racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Documentation Report of the Secretary-General on thematic issues 4. __________________ * 4 For the discussion, see chap. IV. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions.