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. Palestinian women ........................................ 1 II. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women ........ 2 Draft decisions .............................................. 7 B. I. Renewal of the mandate of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ............................. 8 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fortieth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-first session of the Commission ............ 8 Matters brought to the attention of the Council .............. 9 1. 9 II. C. Agreed conclusions ....................................... 1996/1. 2. Methods of work for dealing with the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women ......... 10 1996/2. Women and the media ............................. 11 1996/3. Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities ................ 14 Resolutions and decision ................................. 17 Resolution 40/1. Release of women and children taken hostage in armed conflicts and imprisoned ............................. 18 Integration of women in the Middle East peace process .......................... 19 Resolution 40/3. Mainstreaming the human rights of women 20 Resolution 40/4. Traffic in women and girls ............. 23 Resolution 40/5. International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women . 26 Violence against women migrant workers . 27 Resolution 40/2. Resolution 40/6. -iii-