Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation
of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome
of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/70/133
understanding among men and boys of how violence harms girls, boys, women and
men and undermines gender equality, encourages all actors to speak out against any
form of violence against women, and in this regard encourages Member States to
continue to support the Secretary-General’s ongoing campaign “UNiTE to End
Violence against Women” and the social mobilization and advocacy platform of the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women) “Say NO — UNiTE to End Violence against Women”, as well as the
Entity’s “HeforShe” campaign;
7.
Reiterates the importance and value of the mandate of UN-Women, and
welcomes the Entity’s leadership in providing a strong voice for women and girls at
all levels and its efforts to support intergovernmental processes so that they fully
contribute to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women
and girls and the realization of their human rights;
8.
Notes with concern that, currently, UN-Women has to draw on voluntary
contributions in order to enable it to carry out its mandate of servicing normative
intergovernmental processes, and emphasizes the need for the full implementation
of resolution 64/289 in this regard;
9.
Reaffirms the important role of UN-Women in leading, coordinating and
promoting accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender
equality and the empowerment of women;
10. Notes with appreciation the important and extensive work of UN-Women
for more effective and coherent gender mainstreaming across the United Nations
system, and calls upon UN-Women to continue to support gender mainstreaming
across the United Nations system as an integral part of its work and of its efforts to
accelerate action across the United Nations system;
11. Welcomes the commitment of UN-Women to support Member States in
their efforts to develop and strengthen norms, policies and standards on gender
equality and the empowerment of women, as well as to integrate gender
perspectives into sectoral policy and normative frameworks, in line with its
mandate, and encourages the Entity to continue to promote the need to mainstream
and strengthen a gender perspective in the work of intergovernmental bodies and
processes and the opportunities therein, and to provide technical assistance, at the
request of Member States, in strengthening a gender perspective in resolutions and
other outcomes;
12. Recognizes the important role of UN-Women in promoting gender
equality and the empowerment of women and the central role it plays in supporting
Member States, in coordinating the United Nations system and in mobilizing civil
society, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, at all levels, in support of
the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and calls
upon UN-Women and the United Nations system, within their respective mandates,
to continue to support the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the international, regional, national
and local levels, including through systematic gender mainstreaming, the
mobilization of resources to deliver results and the monitoring of progress with data
and robust accountability systems;
13. Urges Member States to increase funding for the budget of UN-Women
by providing, when legislative and budgetary provisions allow, core, multi-year,
predictable, stable and sustainable voluntary contributions, recognizing the
importance of adequate funding in enabling UN-Women to implement its strategic
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