E/2002/27 E/CN.6/2002/13 Provisional agenda for the forty-seventh session of the Commission C. 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. 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”: (a) Review of gender mainstreaming in entities of the United Nations system; (b) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men; (c) Implementation of strategic objectives and action in the critical areas of concern and further actions and initiatives: (i) Participation and access of women to the media and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women; (ii) Women’s human rights and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, as defined in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”. 4. Communications concerning the status of women. 5. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. 6. Provisional agenda for the forty-eighth session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-seventh session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 3. The following resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission are brought to the attention of the Council: Resolution 46/1 Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling its resolutions 39/2 of 31 March 1995, 40/1 of 22 March 1996, 41/1 of 21 March 1997, 42/2 of 13 March 1998, 43/1 of 12 March 1999, 44/1 of 2 March 2000 and 45/1 of 17 March 2001, Recalling also the relevant provisions contained in the instruments of international humanitarian law relative to the protection of the civilian population, as such, __________________ * 18 For the discussion, see chap. III.