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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/139
10 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 109
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/598 and Corr.1 and 2)]
54/139. Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat
The General Assembly,
Recalling Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as Article 8, which provides
that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any
capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,
Recalling also the goal, contained in the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference
on Women,1 of the achievement of overall gender equality, particularly at the Professional level and above,
by the year 2000,
Taking into account the continuing lack of representation or under-representation of women from certain
countries, in particular developing countries, including least developed countries and small island developing
States, and countries with economies in transition,
Recalling its resolutions 53/119 of 9 December 1998 on the improvement of the status of women in the
Secretariat and 53/221 of 7 April 1999 on human resources management,
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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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