A/RES/70/212
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 22 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/474/Add.2)]
70/212. International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming 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 also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for 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,
Recalling its resolution 68/220 of 20 December 2013 on science, technology and
innovation for development, in which it recognized that full and equal access to and
participation in science, technology and innovation for wome n and girls of all ages is
imperative for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
Recalling also all relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status
of Women, including on access and participation of women and girls in education,
training and science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal
access to full employment and decent work, adopted at its fifty-fifth session, 1
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2011, Supplement No. 7 (E/2011/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
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