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. Agreed conclusions on the critical areas of concern ...... 3 Draft decisions .............................................. 3 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 ............................. 4 II. Functional commissions ................................... 4 III. Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-first session and provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-second session of the Commission ............................................... 5 Matters brought to the attention of the Council .............. 6 1. Agreed conclusions ....................................... 6 1997/1. Women and the environment ....................... 6 1997/2. Women in power and decision-making .............. 10 1997/3. Women in the economy ............................ 12 1997/4. Education and training of women ................. 17 Resolutions and decisions ................................ 20 C. 2. Resolution 41/1. Release of women and children taken hostage in armed conflicts, including those subsequently imprisoned .......... 20 Older women, human rights and development ............................ 21 Elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ........... 23 Resolution 41/4. Violence against women migrant workers . 24 Resolution 41/5. Traffic in women and girls ............. 26 Resolution 41/2. Resolution 41/3. -iii-