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gender perspective into all policies and programmes throughout the United
Nations system;
5.
Calls for intensified efforts at the international level to
integrate the equal status and all human rights of women into the mainstream
of United Nations system-wide activity and to address these issues regularly
and systematically throughout the relevant United Nations bodies and
mechanisms;
6.
Stresses that Governments have the primary responsibility for
implementing the Platform for Action, and reaffirms that Governments should
continue to commit themselves at the highest political level to its
implementation and should take a leading role in coordinating, monitoring and
assessing progress in the advancement of women;
7.
Calls upon States, with the assistance of non-governmental
organizations, to continue to disseminate widely the Beijing Declaration and
the Platform for Action;
8.
Welcomes the progress made by Governments thus far towards meeting
the commitment to developing, by 1996, comprehensive implementation strategies
or plans of action, including time-bound targets and benchmarks for
monitoring, and urges all Governments that have not yet done so to undertake
efforts in this regard, in order to implement fully the Platform for Action;
9.
Also welcomes the contribution made to the elaboration of
guidelines for national strategies or plans of action by regional and
subregional conferences on the implementation of the Platform for Action, such
as the Outline of a Model National Action Plan by the Subregional Conference
of Senior Governmental Experts held at Bucharest from 12 to 14 September
1996,9 which may assist other Governments, too, in meeting this commitment,
and in this respect encourages the support of, inter alia, the Division for
the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat;
10.
Urges Governments that have not yet done so to establish or
strengthen appropriate national machineries for the advancement of women at
the highest political level, appropriate intra- and interministerial
procedures and staffing and other institutions with the mandate and capacity
to broaden women's participation and integrate gender analysis into policies
and programmes, so as to ensure the full implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and the Platform for Action, and takes note of regional
initiatives for strengthening national machineries;
11.
Encourages non-governmental organizations to contribute to the
design and implementation of these strategies or national plans of action in
addition to their own programmes that complement government efforts;
12.
Calls upon Governments to invite and encourage the active support
and participation of a broad and diverse range of other institutional actors,
including legislative bodies, academic and research institutions, professional
associations, trade unions, local community groups and the media, as well as
financial and non-profit organizations for the implementation of the Platform
for Action;
9
See SRC/CEE/REP.1.
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