E/2004/27 E/CN.6/2004/14 7. The Commission urges all entities within the United Nations system to take into account the recommendations contained in the present agreed conclusions and to disseminate the agreed conclusions widely. Draft resolution IV Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on women’s equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building* The Economic and Social Council, Endorses the following agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-eighth session with respect to women’s equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in postconflict peace-building: 1. The Commission on the Status of Women recalls and reiterates the strategic objectives and actions of the Beijing Declaration 31 and Platform for Action,32 the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, and its agreed conclusions on women and armed conflict adopted at its forty-second session in 1998. It also recalls the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,33 Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security and all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including resolution 58/142 of 22 December 2003 on women and political participation. 2. The Commission calls for the full respect of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including the four Geneva Conventions of 1949,34 in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. 3. The Commission calls for the promotion and protection of the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women and girls at all times, including during conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building. It further calls for the protection and security for women and girls under threat of violence and their freedom of movement and participation in social, political and economic activities. 4. The Commission recognizes that the root causes of armed conflict are multidimensional in nature, and thus require a comprehensive and integrated approach to the prevention of armed conflict. 5. International cooperation based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations enhances women’s full and equal participation in conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peacebuilding and contributes to the promotion of sustainable and durable peace. __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 92-94. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 32 Ibid., annex II. 33 General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex. 34 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 31 12