A/RES/57/180 9. Encourages the United Nations and Member States to continue to implement the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” pertaining to the improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system; 2 10. Strongly encourages Member States: (a) To support the efforts of the United Nations and the specialized agencies to achieve the goal of 50/50 gender distribution, especially at senior and policy-making levels, by identifying and regularly submitting more women candidates for appointment to positions in the United Nations system, by identifying and proposing national recruitment sources that will assist the organizations of the United Nations system in identifying suitable women candidates, in particular from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and by encouraging more women to apply for positions within the Secretariat, the specialized agencies, funds and programmes and the regional commissions, including in areas in which women are underrepresented, such as peacekeeping, peace-building and other non-traditional areas; (b) To identify women candidates for assignment to peacekeeping missions and to improve the representation of women in military and civilian police contingents; (c) To identify and submit regularly more women candidates appointment or election to intergovernmental, expert and treaty bodies; for (d) To identify and nominate more women candidates for appointment or election as judges or other senior officials in international courts and tribunals; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session and to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including by providing up-to-date statistics on the number and percentage of women in all organizational units and at all levels throughout the United Nations system, as well as gendersegregated attrition rates for all organizational units and at all levels, and on the implementation of departmental action plans for the achievement of gender balance. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 2002 5