A/RES/79/57
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 98 (ff)
General and complete disarmament: women, disarmament,
non-proliferation and arms control
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 2 December 2024
[on the report of the First Committee (A/79/408, para. 114)]
79/57.
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations reaffirms the equal rights of
women and men,
Recalling also its resolutions 65/69 of 8 December 2010, 67/48 of 3 December
2012, 68/33 of 5 December 2013, 69/61 of 2 December 2014, 71/56 of 5 December
2016, 73/46 of 5 December 2018, 75/48 of 7 December 2020 and 77/55 of 7 December
2022,
Recalling further General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on the
issue of women and peace and security,
Recalling the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1
Noting the adoption of the Pact for the Future 2 and accelerating efforts to
achieve gender equality, women’s participation and the empowerment of all women
and girls, including in conventional disarmament and arms control,
Taking note of action 36 in Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for
Disarmament, on the full and equal participation of women in decision -making
processes, and action 37, on gender parity on disarmament bodies established by the
Secretariat,
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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.
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Resolution 79/1.
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