A/RES/65/191
United Nations
Distr.: General
3 March 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 28 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/449)]
65/191. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women
and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third
special session of the General Assembly
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the question, including resolution 64/141
of 18 December 2009,
Deeply convinced that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1 and
the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century” 2 are important contributions to the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women and must be translated into effective action by all States,
the United Nations system and other organizations concerned,
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Reaffirming the commitments to gender equality and the advancement of
women made at the Millennium Summit, 3 the 2005 World Summit, 4 the High-level
Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals 5
and other major United Nations summits, conferences and special sessions, and
reaffirming also that their full, effective and accelerated implementation is integral
to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium
Development Goals,
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Welcoming progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing that
challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session,
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1
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.
2
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 60/1.
5
See resolution 65/1.
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