CONTENTS Chapter I. Page MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION ......................................... A. 1 Draft resolution to be recommended by the Council at its resumed organizational session for 1998 for adoption by the General Assembly ............................................. 1 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action ................................................... 1 Draft resolutions for adoption by the Council ................ 3 I. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan .............. 4 II. Palestinian women ........................................ 6 III. Mid-term review of the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, including the status of women in the Secretariat ....................................... 7 Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action ...................................... 9 Draft decision for adoption by the Council ................... 32 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-second session and provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-third session of the Commission ............................................... 32 Matters brought to the attention of the Council .............. 33 Resolution 42/1. Human rights and land rights discrimination 33 Resolution 42/2. Release of women and children taken hostage in armed conflicts, including those subsequently imprisoned .................... 35 Resolution 42/3. Violence against women migrant workers ..... 36 Resolution 42/4. Older women and support systems: gender and caregiving ................................. 39 Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ................ 41 Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women under agenda items 3 and 5 ...................................... 42 B. IV. C. D. Resolution 42/5. Decision 42/101. -iii-