A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/4
15 October 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 109
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.4)]
54/4.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action1 and the Beijing Declaration 2 and Platform
for Action,3
Recalling that the Beijing Platform for Action, pursuant to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, supported the process initiated by the Commission on the Status of Women with a view to elaborating
a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women4
that could enter into force as soon as possible on a right-to-petition procedure,
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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 34/180, annex.
99-77473
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