CONTENTS Chapter I. Page MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION .......................................... 1 A. Draft resolutions ............................................. 1 I. Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat ..... 1 II. Women and children in the process of the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a democratic South Africa .................................................... 3 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women .............................. 5 Draft decision ................................................ 7 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its thirty-eighth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the thirty-ninth session of the Commission ................ 7 Matters brought to the attention of the Council ............... 10 III. B. C. Resolution 38/1. Integration of women in the Middle East peace process .............................. 10 Resolution 38/2. Mainstreaming women’s human rights ......... 11 Resolution 38/3. Elimination of violence against women ...... 13 Resolution 38/4. Palestinian women .......................... 14 Resolution 38/5. Women and development ...................... 15 Resolution 38/6. Gender equality in population programmes ... 18 Resolution 38/7. Violence against women migrant workers ..... 21 Resolution 38/8. Equal pay for equal work and work of equal value ...................................... 23 Rape and abuse of women in the areas of armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia .... 25 Preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace .................................. 29 Sustainable development and the environmental crisis ....................... 54 Accreditation of non-governmental organizations in accordance with General Assembly resolution 48/108 ................. 54 Resolution 38/9. Resolution 38/10. Decision 38/1. Decision 38/2. -vi-