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             Economic and Social Council

Commission on the Status of Women

Fiftieth session

27 February-10 March 2006

Agenda item 3

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”

Austria,* Belgium, Bulgaria,* Cyprus,* Czech Republic,* Denmark,* Estonia,*

Finland,* France,* Germany, Greece,* Hungary, Ireland,* Italy,* Latvia,*

Lithuania,* Luxembourg,* Malta,* Netherlands, Norway,* Poland,* Portugal,*

Romania,* Slovakia,* Slovenia,* Spain,* Sweden,* Turkey and United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Northern Ireland*: draft resolution

Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan

The Commission on the Status of Women,

Recalling General Assembly resolutions 60/32 A and B of 30 November 2005, in particular the references to the situation of women and girls,

Recalling also Security Council resolutions 1589 (2005) of 24 March 2005 and 1659 (2006) of 15 February 2006 on the situation in Afghanistan and 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women and peace and security,

Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/8 of 21 July 2005,

1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan;

2. Welcomes also the references to the situation of women and girls in General Assembly resolutions 60/32 A and B;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to take into account a gender perspective when preparing the reports requested in General Assembly resolutions 60/32 A and B and to include a specific and substantive section focusing on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan in those reports;

4. Also requests the Secretary-General to transmit those reports to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-first session.

* In accordance with rule 69 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the

Economic and Social Council.

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