Senior Women's Programme Officers Posts at the Regional Commissions

A/RES/39/127View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1985.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Field Staff Regional Commissions Women's Advancement Women's Status

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

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Takes due note of the report of the Secretary- General on the situation of senior women's programme officers posts at the regional commissions; 151 2.

Takes note of the decision of the Secretary-General to continue posts through temporary arrangements during 1985; 152

Expresses deep concern that there has been a lack of progress in regularizing senior women's programme officers posts at the regional commissions and that work with respect to women's programmes is thereby seriously impeded;

Stresses that the appointment of senior women's programme officers at the regional commissions represents a valuable contribution to the implementation of the goals of the United Nations Decade for Women:

Equality, Development and Peace, and beyond;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive secretaries of the five regional commissions, to reassess all individual work programmes, with a view to incorporating women's concerns at all levels in the overall programme of work of each Commission;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive secretaries of the five regional commissions, to allocate sufficient budgetary resources to staff, including, where possible, by redeployment, within the context of the I 986-198 7 programme budget, in order to regularize all temporary and permanent senior women's programme officers posts at the regional commissions before the end of the Decade, so as to allow the integration of policies and programmes concerning women;

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fortieth session on measures taken in implementation of paragraph 5 above.

I 51 A/39/569/ Add. I.

153 Re~ort of the World Confi•rence ,>f the lnlernalion~I Women's Year. 152 Ibid., para. 13.

Mex,co C /IV. /9 June-2 July 19' I (United Nations pubhcat1on, Sales No.

E. 76.IV. I). chap. II, sect. A.

154 R~solution 35/56. annex

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