DRAFT DECISION I Renewal of the mandate of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women* The Economic and Social Council decides: (a) To renew the mandate of the in-session Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, so that it may continue its work, pursuant to Council resolution 1995/29 of 24 July 1995, during the forty-second and forty-third sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women; (b) To authorize the Working Group to meet in parallel with the Commission at its forty-second and forty-third sessions; (c) To invite a representative of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to attend these meetings as a resource person. DRAFT DECISION II Functional commissions** The Economic and Social Council, bearing in mind the Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights,11 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development12 and the Beijing Platform for Action,13 and recalling General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 51/96, 51/118 and 51/202 dealing with the implementation of the outcome of United Nations conferences and the role of the functional commissions in the three-tiered intergovernmental process in the follow-up to the above-mentioned programmes of action, decides that every effort should be made to ensure that there is no overlap in the work of the functional commissions engaged in the follow-up to United Nations conferences. * For the discussion, see chap. IV, paras. 5-7. ** For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 150-151. 11 See Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Part I)), chap. III. 12 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 13 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (A/CONF.177/20 and Add.1), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. -4-