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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/137
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)]
54/137. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/118 of 9 December 1998,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as stated in Articles 1 and 55 of the
Charter, is to promote universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without
distinction of any kind, including distinction as to sex,
Affirming that women and men should participate equally in social, economic and political development,
should contribute equally to such development and should share equally in improved conditions of life,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on
Human Rights on 25 June 1993,1 in which the Conference reaffirmed that the human rights of women and
the girl child were an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights,
Acknowledging the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to the promotion and protection
of the human rights of women, which includes the integration of the human rights of women into the
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