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(b) To include information on the subject of traditional or customary practices affecting the health of
women and girls in the compilation of updated statistics and indicators on the situation of women and girls
around the world, which he is requested to provide by the end of 1999, by issuing, for example, a new volume
of The World’s Women;
(c) To make available to the Commission on Human Rights, at its fifty-fifth session, the outcome of
the discussions in the Commission on the Status of Women on this issue, if necessary in the form of an oral
report;
(d) To report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the implementation of the present
resolution, with a special focus on recent national and international developments.
85th plenary meeting
9 December 1998