A/RES/73/220
International financial system and development
standards, and encourages all development banks to establish or maintain social and
environmental safeguard systems, including on human rights, gender equality and
women’s empowerment, that are transparent, effective, efficient a nd time-sensitive;
28. Recognizes the need for the international financial institutions, as
appropriate, to promote gender mainstreaming in their policies and programmes,
including macroeconomic, job creation and structural reform policies and
programmes, in accordance with relevant national priorities and strategies;
29. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions
and regional development banks, within their respective mandates, to review and
implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of
resources reaches women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
30. Recommits itself to enabling women’s full and equal participation in the
economy and their equal access to decision-making processes and leadership;
31. Reiterates that States are strongly urged to refrain from promulgating and
applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in accordance with
international law and the Charter of the United Nations tha t impede the full
achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing
countries;
32. Requests, in this regard, the Secretary-General to submit to the General
Assembly at its seventy-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present
resolution with input from the major institutional stakeholders, including the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development, in accordance with their respective mandates;
33. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session,
under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled
“International financial system and development”, unless otherwise agreed.
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20 December 2018
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