E/2005/27
E/CN.6/2005/11
appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action42
and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly43 in the context of its forty-ninth session;
2.
Invites voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the United
Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, and stresses the importance of such contributions to
enable it to carry out its mandate;
3.
Urges the Secretary-General and all relevant United Nations bodies to
support efforts to strengthen the Institute, in particular by promoting its
collaboration and coordination with other bodies within the United Nations system;
4.
Requests the Executive Director of the Institute to report to the
Commission on the Status of Women at its fiftieth session on the implementation of
its programme of work and strategic plan 2004-2007, in particular on those activities
related to the follow-up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the
outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly;
5.
Decides to continue to encourage efforts to strengthen the Institute and to
monitor progress in this regard during its fiftieth session.
Resolution 49/7
Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women45 and its Optional Protocol,46 reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action47 and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of
the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace
for the twenty-first century”, the Programme of Action of the International Conference
on Population and Development,48 the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,49 General Assembly
resolution 59/174 of 20 December 2004 on the Second International Decade of the
World’s Indigenous People, the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action, adopted at the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance50 and reaffirming the obligation of
States to promote and protect the full enjoyment of all human rights by women,
Recognizing that indigenous women are part of the diversity of the women of
the world and that they represent a wide variety of cultures with different needs and
concerns,
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* For the discussion, see chap. II.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
46 General Assembly resolution 54/4, annex.
47 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, annexes I and II.
48 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
49 See General Assembly resolution 55/2.
50 See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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