[Invites Governments, as well as the private sector, non-governmental organizations and other actors of civil society:] To encourage political parties to remove all barriers that directly or indirectly discriminate against the participation of women, in order to ensure that women have the right to participate fully at all levels of decision-making in all internal policy-making structures and nominating processes and in the leadership of political parties on equal terms with men;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Men
Women
Year
2003
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Women and political participation (2003), A/RES/58/142, OP 2b.