E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 affairs unit established within the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan, including the training and selection of staff, and that efforts be made to enhance the role of women in preventative diplomacy, peacemaking and peacekeeping; 10. Encourages United Nations agencies to intensify their efforts to employ more women in their programmes in Afghanistan, particularly at the decisionmaking level, to ensure, inter alia, the functioning of all programmes in order to better address the needs of the female population; 11. Stresses the importance of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan giving special attention to the human rights of women and girls and fully incorporating a gender perspective in his work; 12. Appeals to States and the international community to implement the recommendations of the inter-agency gender mission to Afghanistan under the leadership of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, and urges all, particularly countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations having influence in Afghanistan, to continue to bring pressure to bear on all armed groups to respect the human rights of women and girls in all circumstances; 13. Demands that all Afghan factions, in particular the Taliban, ensure the safety and protection of all United Nations and humanitarian workers in Afghanistan and allow them, regardless of gender, to carry out their work unhindered; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-sixth session a report on progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. Draft resolution III Proposals for a multi-year programme of work for the Commission on the Status of Women for 2002-2006* The Economic and Social Council , 1. Adopts a multi-year work programme for the effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action 28 and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,29 which will provide a framework to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and will be in line with the coordinated follow-up to major forthcoming United Nations conferences and summits; 2. Decides that the work of the Commission on the Status of Women in relation to the programme of work shall be closely related to its mandate and the relevant provisions of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, with a view to ensuring __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 ( U n i t e d Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 29 General Assembly resolutions S-23/2, annex, and S-23/3, annex. 28 6