A/RES/60/210 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 March 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 56 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/492/Add.2)] 60/210. Women in development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 52/195 of 18 December 1997, 54/210 of 22 December 1999, 56/188 of 21 December 2001, 58/206 of 23 December 2003 and 59/248 of 22 December 2004 and all its other resolutions on the integration of women in development, and the relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, including the Declaration adopted at its fortyninth session, 1 Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration 2 and Platform for Action 3 and 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”, 4 and recalling the outcomes of all other relevant major United Nations conferences and summits, Reaffirming also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 5 which affirms that the equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured, and calls for, inter alia, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women as being effective and essential to eradicating poverty and hunger, in combating diseases and in stimulating development that is truly sustainable, Recognizing that access to basic affordable health care, preventive health information and the highest standard of health, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, is critical to women’s economic advancement, that lack of economic empowerment and independence increases women’s vulnerability to a range of negative consequences, including the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, and that the neglect of the full enjoyment of human rights by women severely limits their opportunities in public and private life, including the opportunity for education and economic and political empowerment, _______________ 1 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. 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 I. 3 Ibid., annex II. 4 Resolutions S/23–2, annex, and S/23–3, annex. 5 See resolution 55/2. 05-50020

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