A/RES/58/206
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 93 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/483/Add.1 and Corr.1)]
58/206. Women in development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/195 of 18 December 1997, 54/210 of 22 December
1999 and 56/188 of 21 December 2001 and all its other resolutions on the
integration of women in development, and the relevant resolutions and agreed
conclusions, including those on women in the economy, 1 adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling also the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the
twenty-first century”, 2
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 which affirms that
the equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured, and calls for,
inter alia, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women as
being effective and essential in the combat of poverty, hunger and disease and in
stimulating development that is truly sustainable,
Reaffirming also that gender equality is of fundamental importance for
achieving sustained economic growth and sustainable development, in accordance
with the relevant General Assembly resolutions and recent United Nations
conferences, and that investing in the development of women and girls has a
multiplier effect, in particular on productivity, efficiency and sustained economic
growth,
Recognizing the significant contribution that women make to the economy and
the major force that they represent for change and development in all sectors of the
economy, especially in key areas such as agriculture, industry and services,
Reaffirming that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating
poverty through both remunerated and unremunerated work at home, in the
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1
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 7 (E/1997/27), chap. I,
sect. C.1, agreed conclusions 1997/3.
2
Resolutions S-23/2, annex, and S-23/3, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
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