A/HRC/RES/36/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 October 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11–29 September 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 28 September 2017
36/8.
The full enjoyment of human rights by all women and girls and
the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective into the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that all human rights
are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing,
Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and all other human rights
instruments,
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing
Declaration and Platform of Action, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and
the outcome documents of their review conferences,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”,
Recalling all relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human
Rights Council, as well as the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status
of Women, including the agreed conclusions on women’s empowerment and the link to
sustainable development,
Recalling also that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is grounded in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights treaties, and is
informed by the Declaration on the Right to Development, and recognizing that its
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