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
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and Social Council and the funds and programmes and the specialized agencies, to
increase efforts to fully mainstream a gender perspective into all issues under their
consideration and within their mandates, as well as into all United Nations summits,
conferences and special sessions and their follow-up processes, including those of the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in 2012, the third
International Conference on Small Island Developing States, held in 2014, and the
Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the third
International Conference on Financing for Development and the United Nations
summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, held in 2015;
19. Calls upon States to ensure that intergovernmental processes, such as the
United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
(Habitat III), consistently address gender perspectives in their preparatory processes
and outcomes, including in the discussions of the Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on a new climate change
agreement;
20. Reiterates that the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third
special session is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals;
21. Strongly encourages Governments to continue to support the role and
contribution of civil society, in particular non-governmental organizations and
women’s organizations, in the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty -third
special session;
22. Calls upon Governments and the United Nations system to encourage
women’s groups and other non-governmental organizations specializing in gender
equality and the empowerment of women to participate in intergovernmental
processes, including through increased outreach, funding and capacity-building;
23. Calls upon the intergovernmental bodies of the United Nations system to
systematically request the inclusion of a gender perspective in reports of the
Secretary-General and other inputs to intergovernmental processes;
24. Requests that reports of the Secretary-General submitted to the General
Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiary bodies
systematically address gender perspectives through gender-sensitive analysis and
the provision of data disaggregated by sex and age, and that concl usions and
recommendations for further action address the different situations and needs of
women and men and girls and boys in order to facilitate gender-sensitive policy
development, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to convey the
importance of reflecting a gender perspective to all stakeholders who provide input
to his reports;
25. Encourages Member States, with the support of, as appropriate, United
Nations entities, including UN-Women, international and regional organizations and
other relevant actors, to prioritize the strengthening of national data collection and
monitoring capacities with regard to statistics disaggregated by sex and age, as well
as national tracking indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women,
through multisectoral efforts and partnerships;
26. Calls upon all parts of the United Nations system to continue to play an
active role in ensuring the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third
special session through, inter alia, the maintenance of gender specialists in all entities
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