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century” 7 and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 8 and recalling other
instruments, as appropriate, such as the United Nations Declaration on the Right to
Development, 9
Reaffirming further the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the
adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, entitled “Transforming our world: the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, 10 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda
of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 11
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development addresses the need
to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, in order to
ensure that no one is left behind, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender
perspective in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is crucial,
Recognizing that the achievement of full human potential and of sustainable
development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied its full
human rights and opportunities,
Taking note of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Women’s Economic
Empowerment,
Recalling the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women at
its sixty-second session 12 and its priority theme “Challenges and opportunities in
achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls” ,
Looking forward to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in
New York on 23 September 2020,
Recognizing that progress on the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, in particular in rural areas, has been held back
owing to the persistence of historical and structural unequal power relations between
women and men, poverty and inequalities and disadvantages in access to resources
and opportunities that limit women’s and girls’ capabilities, and growing gaps in
equality of opportunity, discriminatory laws, policies, social norms, attitudes, harmful
customary and contemporary practices and gender stereotypes,
Expressing its deep concern that discrimination and violence against women and
girls, including those in rural areas, continue to occur in all parts of the world and
that all forms of violence and discrimination, including multiple and intersecting
forms of discrimination, that women and girls face are impediments to the
development of their full potential as equal partners with men and boys in all aspects
of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Expressing its deep concern also that, while women contribute more than 50 per
cent of the food produced worldwide, they account for 70 per cent of the world’s
hungry, and that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food
insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discr imination,
Expressing concern that many rural women continue to be economically and
socially disadvantaged because of their limited access to economic resources and
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Resolution 69/2.
Resolution 41/128, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
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