Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 96a Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, published in 1988.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 1986–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/161

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/161	Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women	2,569	62%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/108	Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women	3,023	—
1993	A/RES/47/95	Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women	—	—
1992	A/RES/46/98	Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women	—	—
1991	A/RES/45/129	Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women	—	—

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Takes note ofthe reports ofthe Secretary-General48 concerning the implementation of the Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women;

Takes note also of resolutions 1, 2 and 4 adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its special session in 1987,49 in particular its recommendation that the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies and the status of women in general should be incorporated as a global priority for the period 1990-1995 in the introduction of the Organization's next medium-term plan;

Reaffirms the need for the Forward-looking Strategies to be translated immediately into concrete action by Governments, as determined by overall national priorities, as well as by the organizations of the United Nations system, the specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;

Reaffirms also the central role of the Commission on the Status of Women in matters related to the advancement of women and calls upon the Commission to promote the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies to the year 2000 based on the goals of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace and the subtheme "Employment, Health and Education", and urges all organizations ofthe United Nations system to co-operate with the Commission in this task;

Reaffirmsfurther, in the implementation ofthe Forward-looking Strategies, the role of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs ofthe Secretariat, in particular the Branch for the Advancement of Women, as the substantive secretariat of the Commission on the Status of Women and as a focal point for matters on women, the catalysing role of the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the role ofthe International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women in the promotion ofthe role ofwomen in the context of the participation of women in development;

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1987 /21, in which the Council, in ter afia, decided that the Commission on the Status of Women, commencing with its thirty-second session, should meet annually until the year 2000, with a long-term programme of work that would allow sufficient preparation for each session;

Endorses also Economic and Social Council resolution 1987 /24, in particular the annex thereto containing the priority themes for the next five sessions of the Commission on the Status ofWomen, which should be considered at regular sessions of the Commission under an agenda item entitled "Priority themes", notwithstanding world conferences and preparatory meetings or any process of review and appraisal that might take place;

Requests the relevant United Nations bodies to provide focused and action-oriented input when reporting to the Commission on the priority themes;

Reaffirms the need for the United Nations to develop an integrated reporting system with the Commission on the Status of Women at its centre and, building upon existing information and resources, to monitor the review and appraisal of progress with regard to the advancement ofwomen, based on clear and relevant statistical and other measurable indicators which will assist Member States in identifying problems and in developing remedial measures, at the national, regional and international levels;

Encourages the Special Commission of the Economic and Social Council on the In-depth Study of the United Nations Intergovernmental Structure and Functions in the Economic and Social Fields to take into consideration the unique multidisciplinary and crossorganizational mandate of the Commission on the Status of Women, which is of particular importance in coordinating the efforts of the United Nations in the economic and social fields towards the advancement of women;

Emphasizes, in the framework of the Forwardlooking Strategies, the importance of the total integration of women in the development process, bearing in mind the specific and urgent needs of the developing countries, and calls upon Member States to establish specific targets at each level in order to increase the participation of women in professional and decision-making positions in their countries;

Emphasizes a/so the need to give urgent attention to redressing socio-economic inequities at the national and international levels as a necessary step towards the full realization of the goals and objectives of the Forwardlooking Strategies;

Urges that particular attention be given by the United Nations and Governments to the situation of disabled women, and that Governments take steps to ensure the equalization of opportunities and social justice for and political participation of disabled women in each sector of society;

Once again calls upon the Secretary-General and the executive heads of the specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies to establish five-year targets at each level for the percentage of women in Professional and decision-making positions, in accordance with the criteria established by the General Assembly, in particular that of equitable geographical distribution, in order that a definite upward trend in the implementation of Assembly resolution 41/206 D of 11 December 1986 be registered in the number of Professional and decision-making positions held by women by 1990, and to set additional targets every five years;

Requests the Secretary-General to extend the term of office of the Co-ordinator for the Improvement of the Status of Women in the Secretariat ofthe United Nations for a satisfactory period to ensure that the action programme, 5° in which, inter alia, it is recommended that the

50 A/C.5/40/30, sect. III B. situation of women in the Secretariat be improved, will continue to be implemented;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite Governments, organizations of the United Nations system, including the regional commissions and the specialized agencies, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to report periodically, through the Commission on the Status of Women, to the Economic and Social Council on activities undertaken at all levels to implement the Forward-looking Strategies;

Also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies an assessment of recent developments that are relevant to the priority themes to be considered at the subsequent session of the Commission on the Status of Women and to transmit to the Commission a summary of relevant views expressed by delegations during the Assembly's debate;

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on measures taken to implement the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide for the existing weekly radio programmes on women in the regular budget ofthe United Nations, with adequate provisions for broadcasts in different languages, and to develop the focal point for issues relating to women in the Department of Public lnformation of the Secretariat, which, in concert with the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, should provide a more effective public information programme relating to the advancement of women;

Decides to consider these questions further at its forty-third session under the item entitled "Forwardlooking strategies for the advancement of women to the year 2000".

48 A/42/516 and A/42/528.

49 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1987. Supplement No. 2 (E/1987/15). chap. I, sect. C.

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Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women

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