United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/70
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)]
55/70.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/4 of 6 October 1999 and 54/137 of 17 December
1999,
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,
Acknowledging the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to the
promotion and protection of the human rights of women, which includes the
integration of the human rights of women into the mainstream of United Nations
activities system-wide,
Welcoming the political declaration 2 and the outcome document 3 of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender
equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, in particular
paragraph 68 (c) and (d) concerning the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto,
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Resolution S-23/2, annex.
3
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
2
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