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World Conference of the International Women's Year

A/RES/3520(XXX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Appointment of Members Conferences Establishment Groups of Experts International Decades International Years Programmes of Action Training and Research Institutions Women in Development Women's Advancement Women's Status

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

1

Takes note of the report of the World Conference of the International Womeri's Year, including the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace, 1975, the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objeotives of the International Women's Year, the regional plans of action and the resolutions and other recommendations adopted by the Conference, and endorses the action proposals contained in these documents;

2

Proclaims the period from 1976 to 19,85 United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, to be devoted to effective and sustained national, r~gional and international action to implement the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference;

3

Calls upon Governments, as a matter of urgency, to examine the recommendations contained in the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference including action to be taken at the national level, such as:

a

The establishment of short-term, medium-term and long-term targets, and priorities to this ~nd, taking into account the guidelines set forth in sectidns I and II of the World Plan of Action, including the minimum objectives recommended for achievement by 1980;81

( b) The adoption of nttional strategies, plans and programmes for the implementation of the recommendations within· the framework of over-all development plans, policies and programmes;

( c) The undertaking of regular reviews and appra. als of progress made at the"Dational and local levels in achieving the goals and objectives of the World Plan of Action within the framework of over-all development plans, policies and programmes;

4

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the relevan•t organs of the United Nations and to the organizations of the United Nations system the decisions and recommendations of the Conference;

5

Invites all relevant organizations of the United Nations system concerned:

a

To submit, within the framework of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, to the Economic and Social Council at. its sixty-second session their proposals and suggestions for implementing the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference during the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace;

( b) To develop and. implement, during the first half of the Decade, under the auspices of the Admieis-

60 Ibid., chap. TII. resolution 4.

61 Jbid., chap. II, sect. A, para. 46.

trative Committee on Co-ordination, a joint interagency medinm-1erm programme for the integration of women in development, which should co-ordin~te and integrate activities undert_aken in. accordanc~ with subparagraph (a) above, with special emph"!-s1s on technical co-operation in programmes relatmg to women and development;

( c) To render, in accordance with requests ?f Governments sustained assistance in the formulation, design, implementation and evaluation of projects . and programmes which would ena~le women to be mtegrated in national and international development;

6

Calls upon the regional commissions to develop and implement as a matter of priority, effective strategies to furthe! the objectives of _the World Plan. of Action at the regional and subregional level~, beanng in mind their respective regional plans of action;

7

Urges all financial institutions and all international, regional and subregional deve~opme!lt ?a~s an_d bilateral funding agencies to accord high pnonty m their development assistance, in accordance with requests of Governments, to projects that would promote ~e integration of women in the development proces-s, m _particular women in the rural areas, as well as the achievement of the equaHty of women and men, priority being given to countries with limited financial means;

8

Urges non-governmental organizations, _at the national and international levels, to take all possible measures to assist in the implementation of the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference within their particular areas of interest and competence~'

9

Decides in principle, in accordance with resolution 2659 adopted by the Conference, to establish, under the auspices of the United Nations, an International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women which would be financed through voluntary contributio'ns and would collaborate with appropriate national, regional and international economic and social research institutes;

10

Invites the Secretary-General therefore to appoint, with due consideration to the principle of equitable geographical distribution, a Group of Experts on the Establishment of an International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, consis,ting of five to ten experts, to draw up, in consultation with the representatives of existing regional centres and/-0r institutes for research and training whi~h have similar objectives and goals, the terms of reference and structural organization of the Ins,titute, giving special consideration to the needs of women of developing countries, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic ahd Social Council at its sixtieth session on the basis of the recommendations of the Group of Experts;

11

Affirms that a system-wide review and appraisal of the World Plan of Action should be undertaken biennially, and that such reviews and appraisals should constitute an input to the process of review and appraisal of progress made under the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, 62 taking into account the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order and the decisions resulting from the sixth and seventh special sessions of the General Assembly;

12 Resoluti9n 2626 (XXV).

12

Affirms that the General Assembly and other relevant bodies should also consider biennially the progress achieved in the promotion of the full equality of women with men in all spheres of life in accordance with international standards and, in particular, the participation of women in political life and in international co-operation and the strengthening of international peace;

13

Expresses the hope that the Ad Hoe Committee on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System, which will consider the report of the Group of Experts on the Structure of the United Nations System entitled A New United Nations Structure for Global Economic Co-operation,63 will tab full account of the need to implement the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference, as well as the requirements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, and appeals to the Ad Hoe Committee to ensure that the machinery designed to deal with questions !ela!ing to women should be strengthened, taking into account, in particular, the role of the Commission on the Status of Women and the procedures established for the system-wide review and appraisal of the World Plan of Action;

14

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-first session an item entit1ed "United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace";

15

Invites the Secretary-General to submit a progress report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session on the measures taken to implement the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference, and on the progress achieved in initiating the procedures for the Plan's review and appraisal by Member States, the United Nations organs, the regional cO'mmissions, the specialized agencies and other intergovernmental organizations concerned;

16

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure, if possible within existing resources, that the Secretariat unit responsible for women's questions possesses adequate personnel and budgetary resources in order to discharge its functions under the World Plan of Action in co-operation with all organizations of the United Nations sy&tem;

1 7. Further requests the Secretary-General, in the light of paragraph 16 above, to take into · account the requirements of the World Plan of Action and related resolutions of the Conference in preparing revised estimates for 1977 and the medium-term plan for 1978- 1981 and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty..fust session, in accordance with established procedures;

18

Urges all States, the organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned, as well as the mass communications media, to give widespread publicity to the achievements and significance of the Conference at the national, regional and international levels;

19

Requests the Secretary-General, as a matter of high priority, to issue within existing resources, in the official languages of the United Nations, a simplified version of the World Plan of Action as a booklet, which would highlight the targets, goals and main recom-

63 E/ AC.62/9 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.11.A.7).

mendations for action by Governments, the . Un_ited Nations sys,tem and non-governmental organizations and which would explain the relevance of the implementation of the Plan to the daily lives of men and women throughout the world;

20

Decides to convene in 19180, at the mid-term of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, a world conference of _all _States to review and evaluate the progress made m implementing the objectives of the International Women's Year as recommended by the World Conference of the International Women's Year and, where necessary, to readjust existing programmes in the light of new data and research available.

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Gil Ibid., chap. IIT. i1 Rei,o)ution 12111 fXXJX).

116 IIIIA/10340.