A/RES/66/140
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted at the twenty-sixth special
session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, entitled “Global Crisis — Global
Action”, 9 and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of 2006, 10
Reaffirming further all other relevant outcomes of major United Nations
summits and conferences relevant to the girl child, as well as their five- and ten-year
reviews, including the Beijing Declaration 11 and Platform for Action 12 adopted at
the Fourth World Conference on Women, the outcome of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality,
development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 13 the Programme of Action of
the International Conference on Population and Development 14 and the Programme
of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 15 as well as the agreed
conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status on Women at its fifty-fifth
session, 16 at which it considered “Access and participation of women and girls in
education, training and science and technology, including for the promotion of
women’s equal access to full employment and decent work” as its priority theme,
Welcoming the adoption by the Commission on the Status of Women of the
declaration on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 17 and reiterating that full and effective implementation of
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, in particular the strategic
objectives relating to the girl child, is essential to achieving the internationally
agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the outcomes of the recent high-level meetings of the General
Assembly relevant to the girl child,
Recalling also the Secretary-General’s 2008–2015 campaign “UNiTE to End
Violence against Women” and the call upon Governments, civil society, women’s
organizations, young people, the private sector, the media and the entire United
Nations system to join forces in addressing the global pandemic of violence against
women and girls,
Reaffirming the importance of gender mainstreaming across the United
Nations system, including in relation to the girl child,
Recognizing that chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to
meeting the needs of and promoting and protecting the rights of children and that
urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate it, and
noting that the burden of the global financial and economic crisis, the energy crisis,
the food crisis and the continuing food insecurity as a result of various factors is felt
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Resolution S-26/2, annex.
Resolution 60/262, annex.
11
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 I.
12
Ibid., annex II.
13
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
14
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.
15
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.
16
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2011, Supplement No. 7 (E/2011/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
17
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap I, sect. A; see also
Economic and Social Council decision 2010/232.
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