A/RES/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
plan promptly and effectively, and that the mobilization of financ ial resources for
achieving its goals still remains a challenge;
14. Also urges Member States to take further concrete action to ensure the
full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the
General Assembly, including through strengthened implementation of laws, policies,
strategies and programme activities for all women and girls; strengthened and
increased support for institutional mechanisms for ge nder equality and the
empowerment of women and girls at all levels; the transformation of discriminatory
norms and gender stereotypes and the promotion of social norms and practices that
recognize the positive role and contribution of women and eliminate d iscrimination
against women and girls; significantly increased investment to close resource gaps,
including through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including
domestic resource mobilization and allocation and increased priority on gender
equality and the empowerment of women in official development assistance to build
on progress achieved and ensure that official development assistance is used
effectively to contribute to the implementation of the Platform for Action;
strengthened accountability for the implementation of existing commitments; and
enhanced capacity-building, data collection, monitoring and evaluation, and access
to and use of information and communications technologies;
15. Encourages all actors, including Governments, the United Nations
system, other international organizations and civil society, to continue to support the
work of the Commission on the Status of Women in fulfilling its central role in the
follow-up to and review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, and, as
applicable, to carry out the recommendations of the Commission, welcomes in this
regard the Commission’s continued sharing of experiences, lessons learned and good
practices in overcoming challenges to the full implementation at the national and
international levels and the evaluation of progress in the implementation of priority
themes, and encourages the intergovernmental bodies of the United Nations system,
as appropriate, to incorporate the outcomes of the Commission into their work;
16. Requests the entities of the United Nations system to systematically and
strategically incorporate the outcomes of the Commission on the Stat us of Women
into their work, within their mandates, and, inter alia, to ensure effective support for
the efforts of Member States towards the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and in this regard encourages UN -Women to
continue to use concrete results-based reporting mechanisms and to ensure
coherence, consistency and coordination between the normative and operational
aspects of its work;
17. Calls upon Governments and the organs and the relevant funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their
respective mandates, other international and regional organizations, including
financial institutions, and all relevant actors of civil society, including
non-governmental organizations, to intensify and accelerate action to achieve the
full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
20 years after their adoption, and of the outcome of the twenty-third special session;
18. Reiterates its call upon the United Nations system, including the main
organs, their main committees and subsidiary bodies, through forums such as the
high-level political forum on sustainable development and functions such as the
annual ministerial review and the Development Cooperation Forum of the Economic
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