E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 Chapter IV Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions 1. The Commission considered item 5 of its agenda at its 16th meeting on 8 March 2012. 2. At the 16th meeting, on 8 March, the Chair, Marjon V. Kamara (Liberia), drew the attention of the Commission to a letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council contained in document E/CN.6/2012/14. 3. At the same meeting, the Commission heard a statement by the Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, in accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2011/266, wherein the Council requested that the results of the international expert group meeting on the theme “Combating violence against indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” be reported to the Commission at its fifty-sixth session. 12-27405 45