"(b) The Commission on the Status of Women, at its forty-first
session, adopted agreed conclusions on the theme ’Women and the
environment’. Those agreed conclusions will be transmitted to the
Commission on Sustainable Development as a contribution to the review of
the implementation of Agenda 21;
"(c) The Commission on the Status of Women has a special
responsibility to promote the mainstreaming of a gender perspective into
the process of review of the implementation of the results of major United
Nations conferences in the economic, social and related fields, including
in the areas of poverty eradication. The Chairperson of the Commission on
the Status of Women will contact the chairpersons of other functional
commissions of the Council with responsibility for the follow-up of United
Nations conferences, with a view to considering ways and means to cooperate
in reviewing the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in areas
falling under the mandate of other functional commissions, and to
coordinate mutual inputs to discussions by the various functional
commissions of priority topics, as appropriate. The Secretariat will bring
to the attention of other functional commissions relevant decisions of the
Commission on the Status of Women;
"(d) The Commission on the Status of Women will undertake in 1998 an
overall review of the theme ’Human rights of women’. In accordance with
paragraph 45 of agreed conclusions 1996/1, the Commission on Human Rights
should consider providing an input to the Commission on the Status of women
on ensuring women’s real enjoyment of their human rights, in particular
those relating to alleviation of women’s poverty, economic development and
economic resources. With a view to facilitating interaction between the
two Commissions, the Secretariat is invited to submit a report on this
subject to both the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on
Human Rights, in cooperation with the Centre for Human Rights and the
Division for the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Secretariat.
The Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women will contact the
Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights with a view to examining the
best way to ensure cooperation in the review of the theme ’Human rights of
women’;
"(e) The Commission on the Status of Women adopted agreed conclusions
on the theme ’Education and training of women’ at its forty-first session,
and will review the theme ’Women and health’ in 1999. The agreed
conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on those two
subjects can be transmitted, as appropriate, to the Commission for Social
Development, which will consider issues related to social services at its
session in 1999, and to the Commission on Population and Development, which
will consider the review and appraisal of the implementation of the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development at its session in 1999. The Chairperson of the Commission on
the Status of Women will contact the President of the Council and the
chairpersons of the commissions mentioned in paragraph 57 of agreed
conclusions 1996/1 with a view to examining ways of ensuring the proper
division of labour when reviewing the theme of basic social services for
all;
"(f) The Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with
paragraph 58 of agreed conclusions 1996/1, would welcome an input from the
Statistical Commission on the statistical implications of the Beijing
Platform for Action. The Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of
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