[6 May 2010] Contents Chapter I. Page Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention . . . 1 A. Draft decision for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Declaration on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Draft resolution for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Draft decision for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-fourth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-fifth session of the Commission . . . 5 Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Resolution 54/1. Declaration on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Resolution 54/2. Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Resolution 54/3. Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Resolution 54/4. Women’s economic empowerment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Resolution 54/5. Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Resolution 54/6. Strengthening the institutional arrangements of the United Nations for support of gender equality and the empowerment of women by consolidating the four existing offices into a composite entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Resolution 54/7. Ending female genital mutilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Decision 54/101. Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and empowerment of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Decision 54/102. Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fourth session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 B. C. D. II. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 III. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 IV. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 iii