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hallenges and achievements
in the implementation of the
Millennium Development Goals
for women and girls
Goals, held in 2013. It also reaffirms the outcome
document of the high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals and other internationally
agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond.
1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the
outcome documents of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly, and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion
of the tenth and fifteenth anniversaries of the
Fourth World Conference on Women.
6. The Commission acknowledges the important role
played by regional conventions, instruments and
initiatives and their follow-up mechanisms, in their
respective regions and countries, in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for
women and girls.
7. The Commission reaffirms the outcome document
2. The Commission reaffirms that the Convention
of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, entitled “The future we want”, which
recognized, inter alia, the vital role of women in
achieving sustainable development and resolved to
unlock the potential of women as drivers, agents
and equal beneficiaries of sustainable development.
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, as well
as other relevant conventions and treaties, provide
an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for the elimination and prevention of all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls and the promotion of
gender equality and the empowerment of women.
8. The Commission also reaffirms the commitment
to the full and effective implementation of and
follow-up to all relevant resolutions of the General
Assembly, in particular the Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women, as well
as relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social
Council and its subsidiary bodies, and recalls
relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
in the area of gender equality, the empowerment
of women and human rights of women and girls.
It also reaffirms its previous agreed conclusions,
including, inter alia, on women and the economy
and on the elimination and prevention of all forms
of violence against women and girls.
3. The Commission reaffirms that the full and effec-
tive implementation of the goals and objectives of
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is
an essential contribution to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those
contained in the Millennium Declaration.
4. The Commission also reaffirms 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 at the International
Conference on Population and Development and its
key actions for its further implementation.
9. The Commission recalls Security Council resolu-
tions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889
(2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013) and 2122 (2013) on
women, peace and security and all relevant Security
Council resolutions on children and armed conflict,
including resolutions 1882 (2009), 1998 (2011), 2068
(2012) and 2143 (2014).
5. The Commission further reaffirms the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment
of women made at the Millennium Summit of the
United Nations, the 2005 World Summit, the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on
the Millennium Development Goals, held in 2010,
and the special event to follow up efforts made
towards achieving the Millennium Development
10. The Commission recognizes the important role
of the United Nations system, in particular of the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), in
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