Importance of the Improvement of the Status and Role of Women in Education and in the Economic and Social Fields for the Achievement of the Equality of Women with Men

A/RES/33/184View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 88 United Nations Decade for Women : Equality, Development and Peace, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1979–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/159

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/159	Importance of the improvement of the status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields for the achievement of the equality of women with men	—	—
1979	A/RES/33/184	Importance of the improvement of the status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields for the achievement of the equality of women with men	522	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Economic Conditions Education Equal Opportunity International Decades Women Women's Status

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Urges States to take the necessary measures to promote full equality of women with men in education and in the economic and social fields;

Recommends that States envisage in their policies all appropriate measures to create necessary conditions which will enable women to participate in work on an equal footing with men;

122 First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders: report by the Secretariat

12a A/33/214.

Invites Member States to give in their reports, which are to be submitted in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolutions 1325 (XLIV) of 31 May 1968 and 1677 (LII) of 2 June 1972 and General Assembly resolution 3520 (XXX), the fullest possible information on their experience in the improvement of the status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields and its impact on the achievement of the equality of women with men;

Invites the specialized agencies and regional commissions as well as other interested intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations having consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to submit their observations concerning ways and means for the improvement of the status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields, on the basis of existing studies and field experience in projects, as well as the conclusions of seminars and symposiums held on such subjects;

Requests the specialized agencies, regional commissions and other interested organizations of the United Nations system to organize seminars and meetings and to make studies on ways and means for the improvement of the status of women in education and in the economic and social fields;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare an analytical report on the status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields, based on the material received under paragraphs 3 and 4 above as well as on various existing studies and research, for consideration by the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to bear in mind the content of the present resolution in preparing documentation for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, to be held in 1980.

This prohibition derives from the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to or Punishment, adopted by the General Assembly, according to which:

"[Such act] is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned as a denial of the purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal human rights instruments]."

( b) " ... torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purpos-es as obtaining from him or a third act he has committed or is suspected of having committed,

or intimidating him or other persons. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions to the extent consistent with the oners."122 (c) or punishment" has not been defined by the General Assembly, but should be interpreted so as to extend the widest possible protection against abuses, whether physical or mental. open-ended Working Group during the thirty-third session of the General Assembly owing to lack of time.]

(United Nations publication, Sales No. 56.IV.4 ), annex I.A.

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