E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 immediate release of civilian women and children who have been taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned; 15. Invites the special rapporteurs, within their respective mandates, as well as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, to continue to address the issue of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts and its consequences; 16. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including relevant practical recommendations, taking into account the information provided by States and relevant international organizations; 17. Decides to consider the question at its fifty-sixth session. Resolution 54/4 Women’s economic empowerment* The Commission on the Status of Women, Reaffirming the goals, objectives and commitments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 36 and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 37 Reaffirming also the commitments related to women’s economic empowerment contained in the relevant outcomes of the Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling relevant international commitments that contribute to women’s economic and social empowerment, made at the major United Nations conferences and summits, including at the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen in 1995, 38 the Millennium Summit held in 2000, 39 the 2005 World Summit 40 and at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, held in Doha in 2008, 41 Bearing in mind that women’s economic empowerment is crucial in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly, and contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Recalling the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 42 __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 97-102. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 37 See General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. 38 See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 39 See General Assembly resolution 55/2. 40 See General Assembly resolution 60/1. 41 See Report of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, Doha, Qatar, 29 November-2 December 2008 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.09.II.A.1), chap. I, resolution 1. 42 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. 36 10-30576 17