A/RES/75/156
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 28
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/471, para. 80)]
75/156.
Strengthening national and international rapid response to the
impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on women and girls
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the grave and increasing threat to global health posed by the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and that the pandemic is deepening existing
inequalities, undermining sustainable development and disproportionately affecting
women and girls of all ages, underscoring the need to address this prolonged public
health crisis owing to its grave humanitarian, economic and social consequences, and
stressing the importance of strengthening national health systems, especially in
developing countries,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which addresses the need
to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and g irls, in order to
ensure that no one is left behind, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender
perspective in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is crucial,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
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