A/RES/70/219
Women in development
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Welcoming and recalling the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development to promote gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls, including through the Sustainable Development Goal to achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls and through commitments to
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made across the
Sustainable Development Goals,
Welcoming the recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that gender
equality, women’s empowerment and women’s full and equal participation and
leadership in the economy are vital to achieve sustainable development and
significantly enhance economic growth and productivity,
Reaffirming that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, that the achievement of full human
potential and of sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity
continues to be denied its full human rights and opportunities, that women and girls
must enjoy equal access to quality education, economic resources and political
participation, as well as equal opportunities with men and boys for employment,
leadership and decision-making at all levels, that it will work for a significant
increase in investments to close the gender gap and strengthen support for
institutions in relation to gender equality and the empowe rment of women at the
global, regional and national levels, that all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls will be eliminated, including through the engagement of
men and boys, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspe ctive in the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is crucial,
Reaffirming also the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 4 and 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”, 5 and the international commitments made at relevant United Nations
summits and conferences in the area of gender equality and the empowerment of
women, including in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development 6 and the key actions for its further implementation,
Welcoming the political declaration on the occasion of the twentieth
anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, adopted at the fifty -ninth
session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 7
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4
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.
5
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
6
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.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I,
sect. C, resolution 59/1, annex.
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