7.
Further requests the international community to provide financial,
material and human resources to South African women towards the establishment of
special programmes and projects geared to women’s integration and advancement
now and in post-apartheid South Africa;
8.
Calls upon the Secretary-General to consolidate the United Nations
observer mission already deployed in South Africa to monitor and report on the
unprecedented proportion of incidents of political and domestic violence
directed against women and children from a variety of sources;
9.
Decides that the Commission on the Status of Women should remain
seized of the question of women and children living under apartheid;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the
Status of Women at its thirty-eighth session a report on the implementation of
the present resolution.
DRAFT RESOLUTION VI
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women*
The Economic and Social Council,
Bearing in mind that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 34/ is the most important international human
rights instrument for the promotion of equality between women and men,
Welcoming the growing number of States parties to the Convention, which now
stands at one hundred and twenty,
Noting with concern that the Convention is still the human rights
instrument with the most reservations, despite the fact that some States parties
have withdrawn their reservations to it,
Noting the importance of the monitoring function of the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, as demonstrated most recently
by the Committee at its twelfth session, at which the Committee adopted
suggestion 4 on the World Conference on Human Rights and also adopted, in
substance, and decided to place on the provisional agenda of its thirteenth
session for final approval without discussion, a draft general recommendation on
article 16 and related articles 9 and 15 of the Convention, to be its
contribution to the International Year of the Family,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 47/94 of 16 December 1992,
Recalling its resolution 1991/25 of 30 May 1991 and other General Assembly
and Economic and Social Council resolutions relating to support for the
Committee,
Noting that the annual session of the Committee is the shortest of all the
annual sessions of the human rights treaty bodies,
*
For the discussion, see chap. III.
34/
General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex.
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