A/RES/63/159
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Reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the
Fourth World Conference on Women,1 the outcome of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly,2 and the declaration adopted on the occasion of the
ten-year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of
Women, 11 and also reaffirms its commitment to their full, effective and accelerated
implementation;
10F
Recognizes that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
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Platform for Action and the fulfilment of the obligations of States parties under the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 12 are
mutually reinforcing in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women,
and in this regard welcomes the contributions of the Committee on the Elimination
of Discrimination against Women to promoting the implementation of the Platform
for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, and invites States
parties to the Convention to include information on measures taken to enhance
implementation at the national level in their reports to the Committee under article 18
of the Convention;
1F
Calls upon Governments, the United Nations system and other
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international and regional organizations, and all sectors of civil society, including
non-governmental organizations, as well as all women and men, to fully commit
themselves and to intensify their contributions to the implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session;
Calls upon States parties to comply fully with their obligations under
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the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
and the Optional Protocol thereto 13 and to take into consideration the concluding
comments as well as the general recommendations of the Committee, urges States
parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations that they lodge to the
Convention, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible,
and to regularly review such reservations with a view to withdrawing them so as
to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the
Convention, also urges all Member States that have not yet ratified or acceded to
the Convention to consider doing so, and calls upon those Member States that
have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Optional
Protocol;
12F
Encourages all actors, inter alia, Governments, the United Nations
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system, other international organizations and civil society, to continue to support the
work of the Commission on the Status of Women in fulfilling its central role in the
follow-up to and review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, and, as
applicable, to carry out its recommendations, and welcomes in this regard the
revised programme and methods of work of the Commission adopted at its fiftieth
session, 14 which give particular attention to the sharing of experiences, lessons
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11
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.
12
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
13
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378.
14
See Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/9.
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