United Nations
A/RES/71/169
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 27
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/477)]
71/169. Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 62/138 of 18 December 2007, 63/158 of 18 December
2008, 65/188 of 21 December 2010 and 67/147 of 20 December 2012 on supporting
efforts to end obstetric fistula and its resolution 69/148 of 18 December 2014 on the
intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1 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”, 2 the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development 3 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social
Development, 4 and their reviews, and the international commitments in the field of
social development and to gender equality and the empowerment of women and
girls made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 5 and the 2005 World Summit, 6 as well as those
made in the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the
post-2015 development agenda, entitled “Transforming our wo rld: the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development”, 7
Reaffirming also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 8 the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 9 and the
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1
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
3
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
4
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
5
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
6
Resolution 60/1.
7
Resolution 70/1.
8
Resolution 217 A (III).
9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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