E/2009/27 E/CN.6/2009/15 international law, including the international human rights Covenants, in order to protect the rights of Palestinian women and their families; 4. Calls upon Israel to facilitate the return of all refugees and displaced Palestinian women and children to their homes and properties, in compliance with the relevant United Nations resolutions; Calls upon the international community to continue to provide urgently 5. needed assistance, especially emergency assistance, and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian women and their families and to help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions, with the integration of a gender perspective into all of its international assistance programmes; Requests the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to monitor 6. and take action with regard to the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,7 in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for Action8 and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”;9 7. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation, to assist Palestinian women by all available means, including those set out in the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women,6 and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fourth session a report, including information provided by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. Draft resolution III Future organization and methods of work of the Commission on the Status of Women* The Economic and Social Council, Recalling its resolution 1998/46 of 31 July 1998, annex II of which contained the recommendation that the functional commissions responsible for follow-up to the major United Nations conferences adopt a multi-year thematic programme in their working methods, Recalling also its request, in its resolution 2008/29 of 24 July 2004, that the functional commissions, the regional commissions and other relevant subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council, in accordance with their mandates, as appropriate, contribute to the annual ministerial review and to the Development Cooperation Forum, in the context of their respective annual workplans, taking into account their specificities, Recalling further that the Council adopted multi-year programmes of work for a focused and thematic approach for the Commission on the Status of Women in its resolutions 1987/24 of 26 May 1987, 1990/15 of 24 May 1990, 1996/6 of 22 July 1996, 2001/4 of 24 July 2001 and 2006/9 of 25 July 2006, Recalling that the Council decided, in its resolution 2006/9, that the Commission, at its fifty-third session, should review the functioning of its revised __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 83-85. 09-28398 17