Improvement of the Status of Women in the Secretariat

A/RES/48/106View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 111 Advancement of women, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 1989–2000

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/54/139

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/139	Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat	1,442	50%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/119	Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat	1,032	57%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/96	Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat	718	39%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/67	Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat	510	—
1996	A/RES/50/164	Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat	—	—

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9 operative paragraphs

Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect. A.

A/48/513.

Urges the Secretary-General to implement fully the plan of action to improve the status of women in the Secretariat by 1995, 6/ noting that his visible commitment is essential to the achievement of the targets set by the General Assembly;

Also urges the Secretary-General to examine further existing work practices within the United Nations system with a view to increasing

ST/AI/379.

See A/C.5/47/SR.21, para. 58.

See E/CN.6/1993/15, para. 14.

See A/48/513, para. 18.

flexibility so as to remove direct or indirect discrimination against staff members with family responsibilities, including consideration of such issues as job-sharing, flexible working hours, child-care arrangements, career break schemes and access to training;

Further urges the Secretary-General, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to accord greater priority to the recruitment and promotion of women in posts subject to geographical distribution, particularly in senior policy-level and decision-making posts and within those parts of the United Nations system and its specialized agencies where representation of women is considerably below the average, in order to achieve the goals set in its resolutions 45/125, 45/239 C, 46/100 and 47/93 of an overall participation rate of 35 per cent by 1995 and 25 per cent in posts at the D-1 level and above by 1995;

Strongly urges the Secretary-General to make further use of the opportunity offered by the United Nations reorganization process to promote more women into senior-level positions;

Calls on the Secretary-General to strengthen, from within existing resources, the focal point for women within the Secretariat to ensure authority of enforcement and responsibility of accountability and to enable it more effectively to monitor and facilitate progress in the 1995 action programme;

Urges the Secretary-General to increase the number of women employed in the Secretariat from developing countries, particularly those which are unrepresented or underrepresented, and from other countries that have a low representation of women, including countries in transition;

Strongly encourages Member States to support the efforts of the United Nations and the specialized agencies to increase the percentage of women in Professional posts, especially at the D-1 level and above, by identifying and submitting more women candidates, encouraging women to apply for vacant posts and creating national rosters of women candidates to be shared with the Secretariat, specialized agencies and regional commissions;

Requests the Secretary-General further to develop comprehensive policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harassment in the Secretariat;

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a progress report on the status of women in the Secretariat containing, inter alia, policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harassment in the Secretariat, is presented to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-eighth session, in accordance with the relevant rules on the delivery timetable for documentation, and to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session.

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