A/RES/72/234
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 23 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/424/Add.2)]
72/234.
Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 50/104 of 20 December 1995, 52/195 of 18 December
1997, 54/210 of 22 December 1999, 56/188 of 21 December 2001, 58/206 of
23 December 2003, 59/248 of 22 December 2004, 60/210 of 22 December 2005,
62/206 of 19 December 2007, 64/217 of 21 December 2009, 66/216 of 22 December
2011, 68/227 of 20 December 2013, 69/236 of 19 December 2014 and 70/219 of
22 December 2015 and all its other resolutions on women in development, and the
resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of
Women, including those adopted most recently at its sixty-first session, as well as the
declarations adopted at its forty-ninth, 1 fifty-fourth 2 and fifty-ninth sessions, 3
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Welcoming and recalling the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development to promote gender equality and the empowerment of
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17-23312 (E)
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and
corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap. I,
sect. A.
Ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. A.
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