A/RES/73/340
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 September 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 29
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 September 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.115)]
73/340.
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level
meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World
Conference on Women
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the significance of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held
in Beijing in September 1995,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in 1995 at
the Fourth World Conference on Women 1 and the outcome documents of its twentythird special session, 2
Recalling its resolution 73/294 of 22 May 2019, entitled “Twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women”, in which it decided to
convene a one-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly in the margins of the
general debate at its seventy-fifth session in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the
realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
Recognizing that, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development3 and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, Heads of
State and Government confirmed that realizing gender equality and the empowerment
of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals
and targets,
Reiterating that the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
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19-15703 (E)
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.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
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