A/RES/S-23/3
United Nations
Distr.: General
16 November 2000
General Assembly
Twenty-third special session
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the Twenty-third Special Session
of the General Assembly (A/S-23/10/Rev.1)]
S-23/3. Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action
The General Assembly
Adopts the further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration1
and Platform for Action, 2 annexed to the present resolution.
10th plenary meeting
10 June 2000
Annex
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action
I.
Introduction
1.
The Governments which came together at the special session of the General
Assembly have reaffirmed their commitment to the goals and objectives contained in
the Beijing Declaration 1 and Platform for Action 2 adopted at the Fourth World
Conference on Women in 1995 as contained in the report of the Conference. The
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set as goals gender equality,
development and peace and constituted an agenda for the empowerment of women.
The Governments reviewed and appraised progress and identified obstacles and
current challenges in the implementation of the Platform for Action. They
recognized that the goals set and commitments made in the Platform for Action have
not been fully achieved and implemented, and have agreed upon further actions and
initiatives at the local, national, regional and international levels to accelerate the
implementation of the Platform for Action and to ensure that commitments for
gender equality, development and peace are fully realized.
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 I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
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