A/RES/74/235
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 22 (b)
Eradication of poverty and other development issues:
women in development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/384/Add.2)]
74/235.
Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 50/104 of 20 December 1995, 52/195 of 18 December
1997, 54/210 of 22 December 1999, 56/188 of 21 December 2001, 58/206 of
23 December 2003, 59/248 of 22 December 2004, 60/210 of 22 December 2005,
62/206 of 19 December 2007, 64/217 of 21 December 2009, 66/216 of 22 December
2011, 68/227 of 20 December 2013, 69/236 of 19 December 2014, 70/219 of
22 December 2015 and 72/234 of 20 December 2017 and all its other resolutions on
women in development, and the resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women, as well as the declarations adopted at its
forty-ninth, 1 fifty-fourth 2 and fifty-ninth sessions, 3
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the great est
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
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19-22508 (E)
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. C.
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