E/2011/27 E/CN.6/2011/12 Chapter II Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 7. The Commission considered item 3 of its agenda at its 2nd to 12th, and 14th to 17th meetings, from 22 to 25 February, and 28 February and 1, 3, 4 and 14 March 2011. It held a general debate at its 2nd, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 14th meetings. It had before it the following documents: (a) Report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (E/CN.6/2011/2); (b) Report of the Secretary-General on access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work (E/CN.6/2011/3); (c) Note by the Bureau of the Commission on the Status of Women containing a discussion guide for the high-level round table on access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work (E/CN.6/2011/4); (d) Report of the Secretary-General on progress in mainstreaming a gender perspective into the development, implementation and evaluation of national policies and programmes, with a particular focus on access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work (E/CN.6/2011/5); (e) Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (E/CN.6/2011/6); (f) Report of the Secretary-General on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS (E/CN.6/2011/7); (g) Report of the Secretary-General on the joint workplan of the Division for the Advancement of Women, now part of UN-Women, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/16/33-E/CN.6/2011/8); (h) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund to eliminate violence against women (A/HRC/16/34-E/CN.6/2011/9); (i) Note by the secretariat on the results of the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (E/CN.6/2011/CRP.1); (j) Statements submitted by non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.6/2011/NGO/1-79). 8. At the 2nd meeting, on 22 February, opening statements were made by the Deputy Secretary-General and the President of the Economic and Social Council. 28 11-28654