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Women in development
women and girls, including through the Sustainable Development Goal to achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls and the commitments to gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls made across the Sustainable
Development Goals,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015, by which it endorsed the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Reaffirming also the recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and women ’s full and equal
participation and leadership in the economy are vital to the achieveme nt of sustainable
development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity,
Reaffirming further the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 the
outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 5
and the international commitments made at relevant United Nations summits and
conferences in the area of gender equality and the empowerment of women, including
in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development 6 and the key actions for its further implementation,
Reaffirming the importance of supporting Agenda 2063, adopted by the
Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, as well as its
10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic
transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, its continental programme,
embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development, 7 and regional initiatives, which promote gender equality and
the empowerment of women and girls,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement 8 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parti es to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 9 that have not yet done so to deposit their
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Welcoming also the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development ( Habitat III), held in
Quito, Ecuador, from 17 to 20 October 2016, 10
Recalling its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system, which reaffirms that promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and
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