A/RES/70/219
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 24 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/476/Add.2)]
70/219. Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 50/104 of 20 December 1995, 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,
62/206 of 19 December 2007, 64/217 of 21 December 2009, 66/216 of 22 December
2011, 68/227 of 20 December 2013, 69/236 of 19 December 2014 and all its other
resolutions on women in development, and the resolutions and agreed conclusions
adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, including the declarations
adopted at its forty-ninth 1 and fifty-fourth sessions, 2
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 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,
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which
it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to
working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030, its
recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including
extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement
for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development
in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and
integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium
Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming further its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
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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
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
3
Resolution 55/2.
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