United Nations Assistance for the Advancement of Women in Developing Countries

A/RES/1777(XVII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1961–1963

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1963	A/RES/1777(XVII)	United Nations assistance for the advancement of women in developing countries	485	14%Compare
1961	A/RES/1509(XV)	United Nations assistance for the advancement of women in developing countries	249	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Advisory Services Social Welfare Women in Development Women's Advancement

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 884 E (XXXIV) by which the Council, inter alia, invites the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, in co-operation with the United Nations, to strengthen and expand their programmes designed to meet the needs of women in developing countries and to seek new methods to achieve this purpose ;

Requests the Secretary-General to study, in cooperation with the lVIemher States, the specialized agencies, the United Nations Children's Fund and appropriate non-governmental organizations, the possibility of providing and developing new resources aimed especially at the initiation and implementation of a unified longterm United Nations programme for the advancement of women;

Requests the Secretary-General, within the scope of the proi:;ramme of advisory services in the field of human rights and the advisory social welfare services programme, to study especially the possibility of expanding the assistance which can be rendered, through seminars, fellowships and the services of experts, for the advancement of women in developing countries;

Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to co-operate with the Secretary-General to these ends :

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council and to the Genera1 Assembly on developments in this respect, especially with regard to the possibility of establishing the abovementioned programme.

1187th plenary meet1"nq,

7 Decembrr 1962.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents