United Nations
Fourth World Conference on Women

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC):
documents on the advancement of Women and follow-up to the FWCW

E/1999/44 Executive summary of the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (in pdf format)

E/1999/54  Report of the Secretary-General on Follow up to and implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (in pdf format)

E/1999/60  Report of the Commission on the Status of Women acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century" on its second session (in pdf format)

E/1999/66  Report of the Secretary-general on improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (in pdf format)

E/1998/54  Report of the Secretary on advancement of women: implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the role of operational activities in promoting, in particular, capacity-building and resource mobilization for enhancing the participation of women in development (in pdf format)

Agreed conclusions 1997/2 Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the UN system. Excerpt from A/52/3, Report of the Economic and Social Council for 1997.

E/1997/66 Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies in the UN system. Report of the Secretary-General.

E/1997/64 Ways and means to enhance the capacity of the Organization and the United Nations system to support the ongoing follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women. Report of the Secretary-General

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