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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/136
10 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 109
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/598 and Corr.1 and 2)]
54/136. United Nations Development Fund for Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 39/125 of 14 December 1984, in which it decided to make the United Nations
Development Fund for Women a separate and identifiable entity in autonomous association with the United
Nations Development Programme, as well as its resolution 52/94 of 12 December 1997,
Recalling also the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,1 which
recognizes the special role of the Fund in the promotion of the empowerment of women,
Noting the importance of the work of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development
Fund for Women in policy and programme directions, as stipulated in the annex to resolution 39/125,
Welcoming the contributions the Fund has made in supporting initiatives of Member States, United
Nations organizations and non-governmental organizations to formulate and implement activities that
promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, concentrating on three thematic areas:
strengthening women’s economic capacity, engendering governance and leadership and promoting women’s
human rights and the elimination of all forms of violence against women,
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.
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