A/RES/70/133
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 29 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/482)]
70/133. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women
and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third
special session of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the question, including resolution 69/151
of 18 December 2014, and recalling also the section of resolution 64/289 of 2 July
2010 entitled “Strengthening the institutional arrangements for support of gender
equality and the empowerment of women”,
Deeply convinced that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1 and
the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, 2 are important contributions to the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women and must be translated into effective action by all States,
the United Nations system and other organizations concerned,
Reaffirming the commitments to gender equality and the advancement of
women made at the Millennium Summit, 3 the 2005 World Summit, 4 the high-level
plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 5
the special event of the General Assembly to follow up efforts made towards
achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 6 the United Nations summit for the
adoption of the post-2015 development agenda 7 and other major United Nations
summits, conferences and special sessions, and reaffirming also that their full,
effective and accelerated implementation is integral to achieving the internationally
agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals,
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1
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 60/1.
5
See resolution 65/1.
6
See resolution 68/6.
7
See resolution 70/1.
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