A/RES/78/323
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 August 2024
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 69
Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 August 2024
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/78/L.96)]
78/323.
International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 4 which condemns any discrimination against women
in all its forms, in particular relevant articles thereof, the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 5 the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, 6 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 7 and other
international instruments related to the rights of women and girls, and the importance
of promoting actions to prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence
against women,
Recalling also its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries,
Observing the mutually reinforcing relationship between achieving gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the full realization of all
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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