A/RES/73/147 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 10 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 29 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/582)] 73/147. Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 62/138 of 18 December 2007, 63/158 of 18 December 2008, 65/188 of 21 December 2010 and 67/147 of 20 December 2012 on supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula and its resolutions 69/148 of 18 December 2014 and 71/169 of 19 December 2016 on the intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula, Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1 the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 2 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 3 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 4 and their reviews, and the international commitments in the field of social development and to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 5 and the 2005 World Summit, 6 as well as those made in the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, 7 __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 18-22184 (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. Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I. Resolution 60/1. Resolution 70/1. 140119 *1822184*

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