E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 Documentation Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women Note by the Secretariat transmitting the outcome of relevant sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women 4. Communications concerning the status of women. Documentation Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the list of confidential communications concerning the status of women and responses thereto 5. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. Documentation Letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council to the Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women Note by the Secretariat serving as a contribution to the work of the Economic and Social Council D. 6. Provisional agenda for the sixty-second session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-first session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 4. The following resolutions and decision adopted by the Commission are brought to the attention of the Economic and Social Council: Resolution 60/1 Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts The Commission on the Status of Women, Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 1 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, 2 as well as relevant international standards of human rights, in particular the Universal Declaration of Human __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. III. 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 2 Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. 16-05842 27/62