CONTENTS
Chapter
I.
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MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR
BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION .........................................
A.
1
Draft resolution to be recommended by the Council at its
resumed organizational session for 1998 for adoption by the
General Assembly .............................................
1
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action ...................................................
1
Draft resolutions for adoption by the Council ................
3
I.
Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan ..............
4
II.
Palestinian women ........................................
6
III.
Mid-term review of the system-wide medium-term plan for
the advancement of women, including the status of women
in the Secretariat .......................................
7
Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on
critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing
Platform for Action ......................................
9
Draft decision for adoption by the Council ...................
32
Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its
forty-second session and provisional agenda and
documentation for the forty-third session of the
Commission ...............................................
32
Matters brought to the attention of the Council ..............
33
Resolution 42/1.
Human rights and land rights discrimination
33
Resolution 42/2.
Release of women and children taken hostage
in armed conflicts, including those
subsequently imprisoned ....................
35
Resolution 42/3.
Violence against women migrant workers .....
36
Resolution 42/4.
Older women and support systems: gender and
caregiving .................................
39
Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights ................
41
Documents considered by the Commission on
the Status of Women under agenda items 3
and 5 ......................................
42
B.
IV.
C.
D.
Resolution 42/5.
Decision 42/101.
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