A/RES/74/235
Women in development
Welcoming and recalling the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development to promote gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls, including through the Sustainable Development Goal to achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls and the commitments to gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls made across the Sustainable
Development Goals,
Recalling the commitment of completing the unfinished business of the
Millennium Development Goals, including those related to maternal health and
maternal mortality,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015, by which it endorsed the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Reaffirming also the recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and women ’s full and equal
participation and leadership in the economy are vital to the achievement of sust ainable
development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity,
Reaffirming further the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 while
noting with appreciation that 2020 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of their
adoption and acknowledging the progress made since then, the outcomes of the
twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender
equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 5 and the international
commitments made at relevant United Nations summits and conferences in the area
of gender equality and the empowerment of women, including in the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 6 and the key
actions for its further implementation, 7
Reaffirming the importance of supporting Agenda 2063, adopted by the
Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, as well as its
10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic
transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, its continental programme,
embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development 8 and regional initiatives, which promote gender equality and
the empowerment of women and girls,
Reaffirming also the Paris Agreement 9 and its early entry into force, and
encouraging all parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United
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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, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Resolution S-21/2, annex.
A/57/304, annex.
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
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