II. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 III. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 IV. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 V. Provisional agenda for the fiftieth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 VI. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-ninth session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 VII. Organization of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 A. Opening and duration of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 B. Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 C. Election of officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 D. Agenda and organization of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 E. Appointment of the members of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Summary submitted by the chairpersons of the high-level round table on “Innovations in institutional arrangements for promoting gender equality at the national level” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on synergies between nationallevel implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion entitled “Addressing the linkages between the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration: progress, gaps and challenges” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on the presentation of the review and appraisal processes at the regional level — achievements, gaps and challenges . . . 93 Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on remaining challenges in relation to statistics and indicators, building on the discussions at the high-level round table organized at the forty-eighth session of the Commission in 2004 as well as available data from The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics (2005) and the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on “Future perspectives on the promotion of gender equality: through the eyes of young women and men” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Annexes I. II. III. IV. V. VI. iv VII. Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on “Integration of gender perspectives in macroeconomics” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 VIII. Summary submitted by the moderator of the panel discussion on the role of regional and intergovernmental organizations in promoting gender equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105