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through the work of the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of
the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and the
maintenance of gender units, focal points and gender specialists, and with the active
support of all United Nations bodies, including by ensuring that all United Nations
personnel, especially in the field, receive training on gender perspectives in their
work, including gender impact analysis, and that appropriate follow-up training is
provided;
30. Recognizes the need to further include gender perspectives in the work of
its Main Committees and other intergovernmental bodies;
31. Requests all bodies that deal with programme and budgetary matters,
including the Committee for Programme and Coordination, to ensure that all
programmes, plans and programme budgets visibly mainstream gender perspectives;
32. Encourages the Economic and Social Council to continue its efforts to
ensure that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of all activities in its work and
that of its subsidiary bodies, through, inter alia, the system-wide implementation of
its agreed conclusions 1997/23 and its resolution 2004/4 of 7 July 2004;
33. Welcomes the convening of the World Summit on the Information Society
in Tunis in 2005, and encourages Governments and all other stakeholders to
integrate a gender perspective into the preparatory processes and outcome
documents, taking into account the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission
on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session on 14 March 2003; 11
34. Recognizes the important role of women in the prevention and resolution
of conflicts and in peacebuilding, and urges Governments and the United Nations
system to take further steps to ensure the integration of gender perspectives and the
full and equal participation of women at all levels of decision-making and
implementation in all aspects of conflict prevention and resolution and peacebuilding
activities and to ensure that efforts to strengthen the rule of law and transitional justice
in conflict and post-conflict situations incorporate gender perspectives, with a view to
achieving gender equality in constitutional, legislative and judicial reform;
35. Strongly encourages Governments to continue to support the role and
contribution of civil society, in particular non-governmental organizations and
women’s organizations, in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session;
36. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to promote the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session and to disseminate those documents as widely as possible in all the official
languages of the United Nations;
37. Also requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General
Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of
Women on the follow-up to and progress made in the implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session, with an assessment of progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective
within the United Nations system, including by providing information on key
achievements, lessons learned and best practices, and to recommend further
measures and strategies for future action within the United Nations system;
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 7 (E/2003/27), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/44.
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