E/2004/27 E/CN.6/2004/14 Resolution 48/1 Revitalization and strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling all relevant General Assembly resolutions on the future operations of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/57 of 24 July 2003, in which the Council decided to amend the statute of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Welcoming the establishment of an Executive Board composed of ten Member States as a new governing body of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1. Welcomes the appointment by the Secretary-General of the Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and notes the Director’s plan to develop a targeted work programme and fundraising activities for the Institute; 2. Invites voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and stresses the importance of such contributions to enable it to carry out its mandate, particularly during this critical transitional period; 3. Urges the Secretary-General and all relevant United Nations bodies to support efforts to revitalize the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, in particular by promoting its collaboration and coordination with other bodies within the United Nations system; 4. Decides to continue to encourage efforts to revitalize the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and to monitor progress in this regard during its forty-ninth session. Resolution 48/2 Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS** The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling the goals and targets set forth in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS35 adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth special session, in 2001, and the HIV/AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000, in particular the aim of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS,36 Recalling also its resolution 47/1 of 10 March 2003 and the agreed conclusions adopted at its forty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, entitled “Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)”, __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 56-60. ** For the discussion, see chap. II. 35 General Assembly resolution S-26/2, annex. 36 See General Assembly resolution 55/2, para. 19. 18