A/RES/63/159
Welcoming the work of the Commission on the Status of Women in reviewing
the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and noting
with appreciation the agreed conclusions on financing for gender equality and the
empowerment of women, adopted by the Commission at its fifty-second session, 5
4F
Reaffirming that gender mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for
promoting the empowerment of women and achieving gender equality by
transforming structures of inequality, and reaffirming also the commitment to
actively promote the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all
political, economic and social spheres, as well as the commitment to strengthen the
capabilities of the United Nations system in the area of gender equality,
Bearing in mind the challenges and obstacles to changing discriminatory
attitudes and gender stereotypes, and stressing that challenges and obstacles remain
in the implementation of international standards and norms to address the inequality
between men and women,
Expressing serious concern that the urgent goal of 50/50 gender balance in the
United Nations system, especially at senior and policymaking levels, with full
respect for the principle of equitable geographical distribution, in conformity with
Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, remains unmet, and
that the representation of women in the United Nations system has remained almost
static, with negligible improvement in some parts of the system, and in some cases
has even decreased, as reflected in the report of the Secretary-General on the
improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system, 6
5F
Acknowledging its resolution 62/277 of 15 September 2008, in particular its
gender-specific provisions, and in this context encouraging the ongoing work on
gender equality and the empowerment of women,
Reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of
conflicts and in peacebuilding,
Reaffirming also the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS 7 and the
Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS adopted at the High-level Meeting on
HIV/AIDS, held from 31 May to 2 June 2006, 8 which, inter alia, acknowledged the
feminization of the pandemic,
6F
7F
Noting with appreciation the report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming
a gender perspective into all policies and programmes of the United Nations
system, 9
8F
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on
the measures taken and progress achieved in follow-up to the implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third
special session of the General Assembly; 10
9F
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5
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2008, Supplement No. 7 (E/2008/27), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2008/235.
6
A/63/364.
7
Resolution S-26/2, annex.
8
Resolution 60/262, annex.
9
E/2008/53.
10
A/63/217.
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