inter alia, performance indicators, mechanisms for accountability, impact
analysis and identification of best practices;
"(c) To stress the importance of strengthening expertise on gender
issues generally and in specialized areas, through assessment of the impact
of training;
"(d) To stress the need to draw on the considerable experience and
expertise which exists within the Division for the Advancement of Women and
other gender units/focal points to provide advice and encourage efforts to
develop and enhance cooperation and linkages between these units and other
parts of the system, including within the Inter-Agency Committee, in order
to broaden responsibility for the implementation of mainstreaming;
"(e) To call upon United Nations departments and bodies, in the
context of preparation of the programme budget for the period 1998-1999, to
mainstream gender perspectives into their programmes in line with the
recommendations of the Platform for Action, and to identify clearly those
activities that are necessary to achieve that objective;
"(f) To call for sufficient human and financial resources within the
regular budget of the United Nations, including resources for the Division
for the Advancement of Women, in order to carry out all tasks foreseen in
the Platform for Action, as requested by the General Assembly in its
resolution 50/203;
"12. Requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of
the present resolution."
135. At the 16th meeting, on 21 March, the Commission had before it an informal
paper containing a draft resolution entitled "Mainstreaming of gender
perspectives into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system",
which was submitted by the Chairperson on the basis of informal consultations
held on draft resolution E/CN.6/1997/L.14.
136. A statement was made by the observer for Canada.
137. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution contained
in the informal paper (see chap. I, sect. C, Commission resolution 41/6).
138. In the light of the adoption of the draft resolution submitted by the
Chairperson, draft resolution E/CN.6/1997/L.14 was withdrawn by the sponsors.
Violence against women migrant workers
139. At the 14th meeting, on 20 March, the representative of the Philippines, on
behalf of Bangladesh,1 Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Namibia, Paraguay and
the Philippines, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1997/L.10) entitled
"Violence against women migrant workers", which read as follows:
"The Commission on the Status of Women,
"Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms
faith in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, and in the equal rights of women and men,
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