Declaration of the Commission on the
Status of Women on the occasion of
the tenth anniversary of the Fourth
World Conference on Women
At its 34th plenary meeting, on 21 July 2005, the Economic and
Social Council decided to transmit the following declaration to the
General Assembly and to the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the General
Assembly on the review of the Millennium Declaration.
Declaration of the Commission on the Status of Women on
the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World
Conference on Women
We, the representatives of Governments gathering at the fortyninth
session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York on the oc
casion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women,
held in Beijing in 1995, in the context of the review of the outcomes of the
Conference and of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the
twentyfirst century”, and its contribution to the Highlevel Plenary Meeting
of the General Assembly on the review of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 86 to be held from 14 to 16 September 2005,
1. Reaffirm the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 87 adopted at
the Fourth World Conference on Women and the outcome documents of the
twentythird special session of the General Assembly; 88
2. Welcome the progress made thus far towards achieving gender equality,
stress that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Bei
jing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the
twentythird special session of the General Assembly, and, in this regard,
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See General Assembly resolution 55/2.
87
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 415 September 1995
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and
II.
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General Assembly resolution S23/2, annex, and resolution S23/3, annex.
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