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

E/DEC/2008/256View PDF

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

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At its 44th plenary meeting, on 25 July 2008, the Economic and Social Council took note of the following documents:

(a) Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child;67

(b) Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth sessions;68

65 E/2008/63.

66 E/2008/84.

67 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 41 (A/63/41).

68 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2008, Supplement No. 2 (E/2008/22).

(d) Report of the Secretary-General on the role of the Economic and Social Council in the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits, in the light of relevant General Assembly resolutions, including resolution 61/16;70

(e) Report of the Secretary-General on future work to strengthen the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women;71

(f) Report of the Executive Board of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women on the work of its fifth session;72

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;73 (g)

(h) Note by the Secretariat on the report on the results of the fortieth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;74

(i) Oral report on the coordination aspects of the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, delivered at the 42nd meeting of the Council, on 24 July 2008.75

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