In resolution 37/4 (World Conference on Human Rights), the Commission decided to present a contribution to the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Human Rights. In resolution 37/5 (Women and legal literacy), the Commission made recommendations to Governments and other institutions to promote legal literacy, and requested the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development to include in its agenda consideration of education for all, the eradication of illiteracy, and the promotion of legal literacy, particularly among women, and urged the World Conference on Human Rights to address the issue. In resolution 37/6 (Women and development), the Commission made recommendations to Governments and other institutions to take a number of specific steps to improve the integration of women in development, requested the Secretary-General to include policy and programme recommendations on the basis of gender analysis in his biennial monitoring report on the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies and to ensure that the issues of women and development and of the integration of women in development programmes were an integral part of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade. In resolution 37/7 (Preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace), the Commission urged Governments to establish national preparatory committees and requested the Secretary-General to ensure that documentation was accessible and that Conference facilities catered to the needs of people with disabilities. It requested a series of steps to permit non-governmental organizations not in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to participate in the Conference. It requested the Secretary-General to present a first draft of the Platform for Action to the Commission at its thirty-eighth session, taking into account the structure of the Platform agreed on at the thirty-seventh session and the results of the inter-sessional working group. It made a series of recommendations on the process and content of the second review and appraisal of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies. It suggested that steps be taken to strengthen an information campaign about the Conference. Finally, it requested that the Secretary-General prepare for the Commission at its thirty-eighth session a report on institutional arrangements for the implementation of the Platform for Action containing options for considering that item at the Conference. In resolution 37/8 (Women in extreme poverty), the Commission made a series of detailed recommendations to governmental and other institutions on measures to alleviate the situation of women in extreme poverty. In resolution 37/9 (Work programme on the advancement of women and the proposed restructuring of the economic and social activities of the United Nations), the Commission called upon the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to strengthen the structure for the advancement of women and maintain its identity with adequate resources, urged that in making decisions on the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, due consideration be given to the longand short-term impact of the decisions on the priority, substance and visibility of the United Nations commitment to women and to social development, requested the Secretary-General to ensure that any institutional arrangements strengthened the work programme on the advancement of women and improved coordination, and encouraged Member States to send high-level representation to future sessions of the Commission. -4-

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