E/2007/27 E/CN.6/2007/9 Panel discussion on agenda item 3 (c) Capacity-building on mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluation of national policies and programmes for the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 43. At its 4th meeting, on 27 February, the Commission held a panel discussion on “Capacity-building on mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluation of national policies and programmes for the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”. 44. Presentations were made by Amaryllis T. Torres, Commissioner at the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women and Professor at the University of the Philippines; Esther Odwaa Ofei-Aboagye, Director of the Institute of Local Government Studies in Legon, Ghana; Moushira Khattab, member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Secretary-General of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, Egypt; Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); and Shanti Dairiam, founder of International Women’s Rights Action Watch — Asia Pacific, Malaysia. 45. The Commission then held a dialogue with the panellists, in which the following delegations participated: Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gabon, Germany, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Israel, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malawi, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Spain, Togo, Turkey, Tuvalu, the United States, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and Zambia. 46. The representatives of the International Network of Liberal Women, the International Health Awareness Network, Project Five-O and the International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Coalition (non-governmental organizations) also participated. 47. At its 13th meeting, on 9 March, the Commission took note of the moderator’s summary of the panel discussion.* Agreed conclusions on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 48. At its 13th meeting, on 9 March, the Vice-Chairperson of the Commission, Tom Woodroffe (United Kingdom), reported on the outcome of informal consultations on the agreed conclusions. 49. At the same meeting, statements were made by the representatives of Cuba and the United States. 50. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the agreed conclusions and decided to transmit them for information to the review session to take place in 2007 of the outcome document, entitled “A World Fit for Children”, adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh special session (see chap I, sect. A). * http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm. 38 07-28248