DRAFT RESOLUTION IV Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action* The Economic and Security Council Endorses the following conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women with respect to the four critical areas of concern addressed by the Commission at its forty-second session: I. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN The Commission on the Status of Women Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action,22 notably chapter IV.D on violence against women, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,23 and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women,24 Requests States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to take into account in their initial and periodic reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, general recommendation 19 on violence against women, adopted by the Committee at its eleventh session,25 and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, Requests States parties to international human rights treaties to compile information and report on the extent and manifestations of violence against women, including domestic violence and harmful traditional practices, and the measures taken to eliminate such violence, for inclusion in reports under the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and to include such information in reports to other treaty bodies, Proposes, in order to accelerate the implementation of the strategic objectives of chapter IV.D: * For the discussion, see chap. III, paras. 67-70. 22 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 23 General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex. 24 General Assembly resolution 48/104. 25 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/47/38), chap. I. -9-