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development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disabilityinclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond.
6.
The Commission acknowledges the important role played by regional
conventions, instruments and initiatives and their follow-up mechanisms, in
their respective regions and countries, in the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals for women and girls.
7.
The Commission reaffirms the outcome document of the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, which
recognized, inter alia, the vital role of women in achieving sustainable
development and resolved to unlock the potential of women as drivers, agents
and equal beneficiaries of sustainable development.
8.
The Commission also reaffirms the commitment to the full and effective
implementation of and follow-up to all relevant resolutions of the General
Assembly, in particular the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women, as well as relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social Council
and its subsidiary bodies, and recalls relevant resolutions of the Human Rights
Council, in the area of gender equality, the empowerment of women and
human rights of women and girls. It also reaffirms its previous agreed
conclusions, including, inter alia, on women and the economy and on the
elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.
9.
The Commission recalls Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820
(2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013) and 2122 (2013)
on women, peace and security and all relevant Security Council resolutions on
children and armed conflict, including resolutions 1882 (2009), 1998 (2011),
2068 (2012) and 2143 (2014).
10. The Commission recognizes the important role of the United Nations
system, in particular of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), in promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of women, which contributes to the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals for women and girls at the global, regional
and national levels; in tracking progress of the Millennium Development Goals
to support targeted measures in key areas of women’s empowerment; and in
assisting States, upon their request, in their efforts.
11. The Commission reaffirms that the promotion and protection of, and
respect for, the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women, including
the right to development, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, should be mainstreamed into all policies and programmes aimed
at the eradication of poverty, and also reaffirms the need to take measures to
ensure that every person is entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy
economic, social, cultural and political development, and that equal attention
and urgent consideration should be given to the promotion, protection and full
realization of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
12. The Commission reaffirms that gender equality, the empowerment of
women and girls and enjoyment of their human rights and the eradication of
poverty are essential to economic and social development, including the
achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals. The Commission notes
the universal context of gender equality and recognizes that almost 15 years
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