E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 Chapter III Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 11. The Commission considered item 3 of its agenda at its 2nd to 14th meetings, from 14 to 24 March 2016. It held general discussions at its 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th and 13th meetings. It had before it the following documents: (a) Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the normative aspects of the work of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (E/CN.6/2016/2); (b) Report of the Secretary-General on women’s empowerment and the links to sustainable development (E/CN.6/2016/3); (c) Report of the Secretary-General on the review of the implementation of the agreed conclusions from the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (E/CN.6/2016/4); (d) Note by the Secretariat on the discussion guide for the ministerial round tables to be held under the priority theme “Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development” (E/CN.6/2016/5); (e) Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (E/CN.6/2016/6); (f) Report of the Secretary-General on the release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts (E/CN.6/2016/7); (g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the 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 (A/HRC/32/3-E/CN.6/2016/8); (h) Report of the Secretary-General on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS (E/CN.6/2016/9); (i) Report of the Secretary-General on proposals for priority themes for future sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women ( E/CN.6/2016/10); (j) Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on its fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth sessions (A/70/38); (k) Note by the Secretariat on the results of the sixty-first and sixty-second sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (E/CN.6/2016/13); (l) Statements submitted by non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.6/2016/NGO/1-179). 42/62 16-05842