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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/68
31 January 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 103
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/612)]
51/68.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as
stated in Articles 1 and 55 of the Charter, is to promote universal respect
for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of any
kind, including distinction as to sex,
Affirming that women and men should participate equally in social,
economic and political development, should contribute equally to such
development and should share equally in improved conditions of life,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the
World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,1 in which the Conference
reaffirmed that the human rights of women and the girl child were an
inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights,
Welcoming the growing number of States parties to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,2 which now stands at
one hundred and fifty-four,
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
2
Resolution 34/180, annex.
97-76393
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