Conference of the International Women's Year

A/RES/3276(XXIX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences International Years Participants Women's Advancement Women's Status

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Decides to invite all States to participate in the Conference of the International Women's Year;

Decides to invite also the national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity and/or by the League of Arab States in their respective regions to participate in the Conference ac; observers, in accordance with the practice of the United Nations;

Requests the Conference to submit, if possible, such proposals and recommendations as it deems appropriate to the General Assembly at its special session to be held in September 1975;

Decides to consider at its thirtieth session an item entitled "International Women's Year, including the proposals and recommendations of the Conference

of the International Women's Year" and an item entitled "Status and role of women in society, with special reference to the need for achieving equal rights for women and to women's contribution to the attainment of the goals of the Second United Nations Development Decade, to the struggle against colonialism, racism and racial discrimination and to the strengthening of international peace and of co-operation between States".

:.s At its 1938th plenary meetin.g, on 15 January 1975, the Economic and Social Council decided that the Conference to be held <luring the International Women·s Year should be entitled .. World Conference of the International Women's Year" (Council decision 67 /ORG-75) ).

At the 2311th plenary meeting, on JO December 1974, the President of the General Assembly announced that the Chairman of the Third Committee, in pursuance of paragraph 2 of the above resolution, had designated the members of the Consultative Committee for the Conference of the International

As a result. tire Consultatfre Committee is composed of the following Member States: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, FRANCE, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, INDIA, IRAN, JA. MAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, MEXICO, NIGER, PHILIPPINES, ROMANIA, RWANDA, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE, SWEDEN, TUNISIA, UNION OF SOVIET SoCIALIST REPUBLICS, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and VENEZUELA.

r.9 See also p. 95, item 12.

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