E/CN.6/2024/L.3
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: Limited
25 March 2024
Original: English
Commission on the Status of Women
Sixty-eighth session
New York, 11–22 March 2024
Agenda item 3 (a) (i)
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and
to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century”: implementation of
strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern and
further actions and initiatives: priority theme: accelerating
the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of
all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening
institutions and financing with a gender perspective
Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls by addressing
poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with
a gender perspective
Agreed conclusions
1.
The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, 1 the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of
the General Assembly 2 and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the
occasion of the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth
World Conference on Women, and stresses the need to further strengthen their
implementation.
2.
The Commission reiterates that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 4
and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5 and the Optional Protocols thereto, 6
as well as other relevant conventions and treaties, such as the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 7 the International Covenant on Civil and
__________________
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
24-05678 (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.
General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
General Assembly resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531.
See General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
050424
*2405678*