A/RES/70/132
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 29 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/482)]
70/132. Improvement of the situation of women and girls in
rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 56/129 of 19 December 2001, 58/146 of 22 December
2003, 60/138 of 16 December 2005, 62/136 of 18 December 2007, 64/140 of
18 December 2009, 66/129 of 19 December 2011 and 68/139 of 18 December 2013,
Affirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and also that all forms of discrimination, including
discrimination against women and girls, are contrary to the Charter of the United
Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4 the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and other human rights instruments,
Taking note of the provisions pertaining to women and girls in rural areas
contained in the outcome documents of relevant international conferences and
summits, in particular the Beijing Declaration 6 and Platform for Action 7 adopted at
the Fourth World Conference on Women, 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” 8 and the outcome document of
the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World
Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 9 and recalling other instruments, as appropriate,
such as the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, 10
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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 I.
Ibid., annex II.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
Resolution 69/2.
Resolution 41/128, annex.
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