United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/69
Distr.: General
8 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 107
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/595 and Corr.1 and 2)]
55/69.
Improvement of the status of women in the United
Nations system
The General Assembly,
Recalling Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as
Article 8, which provides that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the
eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of
equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,
Recalling also the goal, contained in the Platform for Action adopted by the
Fourth World Conference on Women, 1 of the achievement of overall gender equality,
particularly at the Professional level and above, by the year 2000,
Recalling further its resolution 54/139 of 17 December 1999 on the
improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat,
Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/46 of 20 April
2000 2 on integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations
system, in particular paragraph 11, in which the Commission recognizes that gender
mainstreaming will strongly benefit from the enhanced and full participation of
women, including at the higher levels of decision-making in the United Nations
system,
Taking note also of the recommendations made by the women heads of State
and Government and women heads of United Nations agencies at their meeting, held
on 5 September 2000, just prior to the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, to
improve female representation within the United Nations system, especially at
senior levels, 3
Welcoming the decision of the Secretary-General to include, in the
performance appraisal of managers, information on the opportunities presented for
the selection of women candidates and on progress made in improving women’s
representation, including efforts made to identify women candidates,
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, annex II.
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
3
See www.womenworldleaders.org.
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