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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/195
18 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 97 (g)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/52/628/Add.7)]
52/195. Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/104 of 20 December 1995 and all other relevant Assembly resolutions on the
integration of women in development, and also the resolutions and the agreed conclusions1 adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women on the integration of women in development,
Reaffirming the Beijing Platform for Action 2 and the outcomes of recent major United Nations
conferences and summits,
Reaffirming also that gender equality is of fundamental importance for achieving sustained economic
growth and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant General Assembly resolutions and recent
United Nations conferences,
Recognizing the significant contribution that women make to economic activities and the major force
that they represent for change and development in all sectors of the economy, especially in key areas such
as agriculture, industry and services,
Concerned that the continued discrimination against women, the denial or lack of equal rights and access
to education, training and credit facilities and the lack of control over land, capital, technology and other
areas of production impede their full and equal contribution to, and equal opportunity to benefit from,
development,
1
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 7 (E/1997/27), chap. I,
sect. C.1, agreed conclusions 1997/3.
2
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, annex II.
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