CONTENTS Chapter I. Page MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION ......................................... 7 A. 7 Draft resolutions ............................................ I. Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat .. 7 II. Draft declaration on the elimination of violence against women .................................................. 9 III. Communications on the status of women .................. 16 IV. Women, environment and development ..................... 17 V. Women and children under apartheid ..................... 20 VI. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ........................... 22 Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women ....... 23 Draft decisions .............................................. 24 VII. B. I. Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its thirty-seventh session and provisional agenda and documentation for the thirty-eighth session of the Commission ............................................. 24 Inter-sessional working group of the Commission on the Status of Women on the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace .................................. 27 Resolutions of the Commission brought to the attention of the Council ...................................................... 27 II. C. 37/1. Preliminary proposals for the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001 ............................................. 28 37/2. Inter-agency coordination ............................. 31 37/3. Rape and abuse of women in the territory of the former Yugoslavia ............................................ 32 37/4. World Conference on Human Rights ...................... 33 37/5. Women and legal literacy .............................. 37 37/6. Women and development ................................. 39 37/7. Preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace ............ 42 Women in extreme poverty .............................. 48 37/8. -5-