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Political Rights, 8 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 9 the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 10
and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families 11 provide an international legal framework
and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls and the full and equal enjo yment of all their
human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout their life course.
3.
The Commission reaffirms that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
and the outcome documents of its reviews, and the outcomes of relevant major United
Nations conferences and summits and the follow-up to those conferences and
summits, have laid a solid foundation for sustainable development and that the full,
effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action will make a crucial contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development 12 and to achieving gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls.
4.
The Commission emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship among
achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and the full,
effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action and the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It
acknowledges that achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
girls and women’s full, equal, effective and meaningful participation and decision making in addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a
gender perspective is essential for achieving sustainable development, promoting
peaceful, just and inclusive societies, enhancing inclusive and sustainable economic
growth and productivity, ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions everywhere
and ensuring the well-being of all. It recognizes that women and girls play a vital role
as agents of change for sustainable development.
5.
The Commission reaffirms the commitments to gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls made at relevant United Nations summits and
conferences, including the International Conference on Population and Development
and its Programme of Action 13 and the outcome documents of its reviews. It
recognizes that the 2030 Agenda, the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA)
Pathway, 14 the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 15 the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, 16 the New Urban Agenda, 17 the World Summit for Social Development
and the political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage 18
contribute, inter alia, to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls and the full realization of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms
by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
General Assembly resolution 70/1.
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.
General Assembly resolution 69/15, annex.
General Assembly resolution 69/283, annex II.
General Assembly resolution 69/313, annex.
General Assembly resolution 71/256, annex.
General Assembly resolution 74/2.
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