E/1999/27 E/CN.6/1999/10 Draft resolution III System-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 2002–2005 * The Economic and Social Council, Recalling its resolution 1996/34 of 25 July 1996 on the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 1996–2001 in which it called for a new draft plan to cover the period 2002–2005, Considering that the new draft plan should take into consideration the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on progress achieved in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action,12 1. Invites the Secretary-General, in his capacity as chairman of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, to formulate the plan for 2002–2005 in two phases — a first phase consisting of an assessment of activities undertaken by the United Nations system and of obstacles encountered and lessons learned from the present plan and the system-wide process of its implementation, and the second phase consisting of a new plan that reflects the growing emphasis on action and delivery; 2. Decides that the assessment should be submitted to the Economic and Social Council through the Commission on the Status of Women in the year 2000 and that the new plan for 2002–2005 should be submitted to the Economic and Social Council through the Commission in 2001. Draft resolution IV Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action * The Economic and Social Council Endorses the following agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women with respect to the two critical areas of concern addressed by the Commission at its forty-third session: I. Women and health The Commission on the Status of Women 1. Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,20 notably chapter IV.C on women and health, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development21 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;22 2. Recalls the Constitution of the World Health Organization, which states that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity; that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political * 20 21 22 For the discussion, see chap. II. See Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13). See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18) General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex. 11