United Nations
A/RES/63/158
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 February 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 56 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/425)]
63/158. Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 62/138 of 18 December 2007 on supporting efforts to
end obstetric fistula,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1 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 and the
declaration adopted at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of
Women, 3
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Reaffirming also the international commitments in the field of social
development and to gender equality and the advancement of women made at the
World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population
and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4
and at the 2005 World Summit, 5
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Reaffirming further the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 6 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 and
urging States that have not done so to consider, as a matter of priority, signing,
ratifying or acceding to those Conventions and the Optional Protocols thereto, 8
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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 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.
4
See resolution 55/2.
5
See resolution 60/1.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
7
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531.
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