E/2004/27 E/CN.6/2004/14 (e) To integrate efforts to improve the health status of women within all reconstruction efforts, especially through access to skilled prenatal care, increasing access to skilled birth attendance, education programmes on basic health issues, community information activities and emergency obstetric care; (f) To continue to support measures for the employment of women and the integration of a gender perspective into all social, development and reconstruction programmes, taking into account the special needs of widows and returning refugee and displaced women and girls as well as those living in rural areas; 6. Strongly urges the Secretary-General to ensure that the important post of Senior Gender Adviser in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is filled immediately and with due regard to the need for continuity in this task; 7. 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-ninth session a report on progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. Draft resolution II Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women* The Economic and Social Council, Having considered with appreciation the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women,20 Recalling the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,21 in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for Action22 adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,23 Recalling also its resolution 2003/42 of 22 July 2003 and other relevant United Nations resolutions, Recalling further the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women24 as it concerns the protection of civilian populations, Expressing the urgent need for the resumption of negotiations within the Middle East peace process on its agreed basis and towards the speedy achievement of a final settlement between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, Concerned about the grave deterioration of the situation of Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and about the severe __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 49-55. E/CN.6/2004/4. 21 Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV.10), chap. 1, sect. A. 22 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. 1, resolution 1, annex II. 23 See General Assembly resolutions S-23/2 and S-23/3. 24 See General Assembly resolution 48/104. 20 6