Proclaims the year 1975 International Women's Year;
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Decides to devote this year to intensified action:
a
To promote equality between men and women;
b
To ensure the full integration of women in the total development effort, especially by emphasizing women's responsibility and important role in ~conomic, social and cultural development at the national, regional and international levels, particularly during the Second United Nations Development Decade;
c
To recognize the importance of women's increasing contribution to the development of friendly relations and co-operation among States and to the strengthening of world peace;
3
Invitesall Member States and all interested organizations to take steps to ensure the full realization of the rights of women and their advancement on the basis of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;
4
InvitesGovernments that have not yet done so to ratify as soon as possible the Convention concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value, 1951,22 adopted by the International Labour Conference at its thirty-fourth session;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with Member States, specialized agencies and interested non-governmental organizations, within the limits of existing resources, a draft programme for the International Women's Year and to submit it to the Commission on the Status of Women at its twenty-fifth session in 1974.
