E/2008/27 E/CN.6/2008/11 Report of the Secretary-General on the joint workplan of the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the Fund to eliminate violence against women Note by the Secretariat transmitting the outcome of the forty-third session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women 4. Communications concerning the status of women. Documentation Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the list of confidential communications concerning the status of women 5. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. Documentation Letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council to the Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women Note by the Secretariat as input to the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2009 of the Economic and Social Council D. 6. Provisional agenda for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-third session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 4. The following resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission are brought to the attention of the Council: Resolution 52/1 Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling all its previous resolutions on the release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts, as well as all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights concerning hostage-taking and General Assembly resolution 61/172 of 19 December 2006, * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 65-70. 08-29062 13