Contents Chapter Page Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention . . . . 1 A. Draft resolutions for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 III. Agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on participation in 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Draft decision for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-seventh session and the provisional agenda for the forty-eighth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Resolution 47/1. Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Resolution 47/2. Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Decision 47/101. Report of the Working Group on the future operation of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women . . 16 Decision 47/102. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Decision 47/103. Documents considered by the Commission on the Status of Women under agenda items 3 and 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 II. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 III. 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” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 IV. Communications concerning the status of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 V. Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 VI. Provisional agenda for the forty-eighth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 VII. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-seventh session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 VIII. Organization of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 A. 45 I. B. C. Opening and duration of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii