A/RES/64/217
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 March 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 57 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/424/Add.2)]
64/217. Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/195 of 18 December 1997, 54/210 of 22 December
1999, 56/188 of 21 December 2001, 58/206 of 23 December 2003, 59/248 of
22 December 2004, 60/210 of 22 December 2005 and 62/206 of 19 December 2007
and all its other resolutions on the integration of women in development, and the
relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the
Status of Women, including the Declaration adopted at its forty-ninth session, 1
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Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration 2 and Platform for Action 3 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”, 4
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Reaffirming also the commitments to gender equality and the advancement of
women made at the Millennium Summit, 5 the 2005 World Summit 6 and other major
United Nations summits, conferences and special sessions, and reaffirming further
that their full, effective and accelerated implementation are integral to achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development
Goals,
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Reaffirming further the United Nations Millennium Declaration,5 which affirms
that the equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured, and calls
for, inter alia, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women as
being effective in and essential to eradicating poverty and hunger, combating
diseases and stimulating development that is truly sustainable,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
2
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, annex I.
3
Ibid., annex II.
4
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
5
See resolution 55/2.
6
See resolution 60/1.
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