United Nations
A/RES/56/229
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 112
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/576)]
56/229. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/70 of 4 December 2000 and its previous resolutions
on the elimination of discrimination against women,
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 mainstream of United Nations
activities system-wide,
Reaffirming the commitments made in the political declaration 2 and the
outcome document 3 of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, in particular paragraphs 68 (c) and (d) concerning the Convention on the
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1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Resolution S-23/2, annex.
3
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
2
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