E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 Recalling also General Assembly resolution 66/140 entitled “The girl child”, as well as the agreed conclusions of the forty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women entitled “Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)”, 48 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 49 2. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session on the situation of women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, with an emphasis on accelerated actions taken in regard to women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,21 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,26 the 2006 and 2011 Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS45 and the 2011 Commitments on HIV/AIDS,46 using information provided by Member States and the United Nations system. Decision 56/101 Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session 5. At its 18th meeting, on 9 March, the Commission on the Status of Women decided to take note of the following documents: Under agenda item 2 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 50 Under agenda item 3 (a) Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on Normative aspects of the work of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women; (b) Report of the Secretary-General on the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges; 51 (c) Report of the Secretary-General on the empowerment of rural women: the role of gender-responsive governance and institutions; 52 (d) Report of the Secretary-General on the release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts; 53 __________________ 48 49 50 51 52 53 26 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2001/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A. See E/CN.6/2012/11. E/CN.6/2012/13. E/CN.6/2012/3. E/CN.6/2012/4. E/CN.6/2012/7. 12-27405