Document Considered by the Economic and Social Council in Connection with Social and Human Rights Questions Advancement of Women

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

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At its 49th plenary meeting, on 17 October 2007, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on its 2007 sessions.77

76 Ibid., chap. I, sect. C, resolution 7/1, annex, sect. B. 77 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/62/38).

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