E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 2009 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 addressed 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 2007 of the Economic and Social Council D. 6. Provisional agenda for the fifty-second session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-first session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 4. The following resolutions, decisions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission are brought to the attention of the Council: Resolution 50/1 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 57/220 of 18 December 2002, Recalling also the relevant provisions contained in the instruments of international humanitarian law relative to the protection of the civilian population as such, Taking into account the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 34/146 of 17 December 1979, which recognizes that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and that the taking of hostages is an offence of grave concern to the international community, Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,14 as well as the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,16 and the outcome document of the special session of the Assembly on __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 47-51. General Assembly resolutions S-23/2, annex, and S-23/3, annex. 16 12