Contents Page Chapter I. Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention . . . . . . . 1 A. Draft resolution to be recommended by the Council for adoption by the General Assembly . 1 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Draft resolutions for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 I. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 II. Palestinian women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 III. System-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 2002–2005 . . . . . . . . 11 IV. Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Draft decisions for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 B. C. I. II. Enabling the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to carry out its mandate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-third session and provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fourth session of the Commission 23 III. Extraordinary meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Resolution 43/1. Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Resolution 43/2. Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Resolution 43/3. Women and mental health, with emphasis on special groups . . . . . . . 28 Decision 43/101. Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women under agenda item 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 II. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 III. Initiation of the comprehensive review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform for Action and preparation for the special session of the General Assembly in the year 2000 . . . . . . . . 40 IV. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 V. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, including the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 D. vi