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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/96
6 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 105
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/637)]
52/96.
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,
Recalling further its resolution 51/67 of 12 December 1996 and section C of its resolution 51/226 of
3 April 1997 on the status of women in the Secretariat,
Welcoming the achievement of the interim goal set in its resolution 45/125 of 14 December 1990 of a
35 per cent overall participation rate of women in posts subject to geographical distribution,
Concerned that the interim goal set in its resolution 45/239 C of 21 December 1990 of a 25 per cent
participation rate of women in posts at the D-1 level and above is still far from being achieved and that the
representation of women at that level remains unacceptably low,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General and the recommendations contained therein;2
1
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.
2
A/52/408.
98-76621
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