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/69/151
Welcoming progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing that
challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session,
Noting that 2015 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World
Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, and welcoming the efforts of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality
and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) to commemorate the occasion,
Recognizing that the responsibility for the implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session rests primarily at the national level and that strengthened efforts are
necessary in this respect, and reiterating that enhanced international cooperation is
essential for full, effective and accelerated implementation,
Welcoming the work of the Commission on the Status of Women in reviewing
the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and taking
note with appreciation of all its agreed conclusions, including the agreed
conclusions on the challenges and achievements in the implementation of the
Millennium Development Goals for women and girls adopted by the Commission at
its fifty-eighth session, 7 and of the need to implement them,
Welcoming also the strengthening of the capacity of UN-Women and its
experience in achieving its mandate,
Taking note of the activities carried out by the Fund for Gender Equality and
the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against
Women,
Recognizing that the participation and contribution of civil society, in
particular women’s groups and organizations and other non-governmental
organizations, are important to the successful implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session, in particular in the lead-up to the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of
the Platform for Action,
Reaffirming that gender mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for
promoting the empowerment of women and achieving gender equality by
transforming structures of inequality, which is relevant in all issues considered by
its Main Committees and subsidiary bodies, including in resolutions dealing with
issues beyond social, humanitarian, cultural, economic and financial matters,
Reaffirming also the commitment to actively promote the mainstreaming of a
gender perspective into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
policies and programmes in all political, economic and social spheres, as well as the
commitment to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system in the area
of gender equality,
Reaffirming further the commitments in regard to gender equality and the
empowerment of women in the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development:
outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for
Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 8
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2014, Supplement No. 7 (E/2014/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
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Resolution 63/239, annex.
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