participation rate of 35 per cent by 1995 and 25 per cent in posts at the D-1 level and above by 1995; 4. Strongly urges the Secretary-General to make further use of the opportunity offered by the United Nations reorganization process to promote more women into senior-level positions; 5. Calls on the Secretary-General to strengthen, from within existing resources, the focal point for women within the Secretariat to ensure authority of enforcement and responsibility of accountability and designate it with the express mandate for overall implementation of the plan of action developed by the Secretary-General to improve the status of women in the Secretariat; 6. Urges the Secretary-General to increase the number of women employed in the Secretariat from developing countries, particularly those that are unrepresented or underrepresented, and from other countries that have a low representation of women, including countries in transition; 7. Strongly encourages Member States to support the efforts of the United Nations and the specialized agencies to increase the percentage of women in Professional posts, especially at the D-1 level and above, by identifying and submitting more women candidates, encouraging women to apply for vacant posts and creating national rosters of women candidates to be shared with the Secretariat, specialized agencies and regional commissions; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to develop further comprehensive policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harassment in the Secretariat; 9. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a progress report on the status of women in the Secretariat, containing, inter alia, policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harassment in the Secretariat, is presented to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session and to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session, and to ensure that it is issued in accordance with the six-weeks’ rule for the circulation of documentation. DRAFT RESOLUTION II Women and children in the process of the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a democratic South Africa* The Economic and Social Council, Recalling its resolution 1993/45 of 28 July 1993, Reaffirming the provisions of the Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, contained in the annex to General Assembly resolution S-16/1 of 14 December 1989, Recalling General Assembly resolution 48/159 of 20 December 1993, ______________________ * For the discussion, see chap. III. -3-