effective international control including disarmament of all types of weapons of mass destruction; · Work to prevent and put an end to aggression and all forms of armed conflict, thereby promoting a culture of peace. III. HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN The Commission on the Status of Women Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,31 in particular chapter IV.I on the human rights of women, and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights,32 Recommends that the Commission on Human Rights give particular attention to the economic and social rights of women in any discussions it may have at its fifty-fourth session on the question of the appointment and mandate of a special rapporteur on economic, social and cultural rights, or a specific aspect thereof; and invites the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women in 1999 on decisions taken by the Commission on Human Rights on this issue, and further recommends that the rapporteur on economic, social and cultural rights, if appointed, should make his or her reports available to the Commission on the Status of Women, Proposes, in order to accelerate the implementation of the strategic objectives of chapter IV.I of the Platform for Action: A. Creation and development of an environment conducive to women’s enjoyment of their human rights and awareness-raising Actions to be taken by Governments, non-governmental organizations, employers, trade unions, the private sector and other actors in civil society, as appropriate: · Ensure universal awareness by all persons, women and men, girls and boys of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and children, including the girl child, through comprehensive human rights education in accordance with the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, and create and promote a culture of human rights, development and peace; · Encourage and support broad-based national and community-based dialogues that include women and men, and girls and boys, from diverse backgrounds, on the meaning of human rights, on the obligations thereby created and on gender-specific discrimination and violations; · Ensure that work, including, inter alia, work by treaty bodies within their mandates to develop an understanding of the gender dimensions of 31 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 II. 32 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. -21-