Follow-Up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and Full Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action

A/RES/52/231View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 106 Implementation of the outcome of the 4th World Conference on Women, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1996–2000

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/54/141

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/141	Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action	1,119	21%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/120	Follow-up to the 4th World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action	3,045	14%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/231	Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action	1,000	13%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/100	Follow-up to the 4th World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action	3,337	20%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/203	Follow-up to the 4th World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action	2,416	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Gender Gender Discrimination Girls Information Dissemination Non-Governmental Organizations Programme Implementation Publications Questionnaires Regional Commissions Statistics Women Women's Advancement

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Decides that the high-level plenary review to appraise and assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,⁴ and the Platform for Action five years after its adoption, and to consider further actions and initiatives shall be held as a special session of the General Assembly for five days, from 5 to 9 June 2000;

⁴Report 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.

Also decides that the special session should reaffirm the commitment to the Platform for Action and further focus, inter alia, on obstacles encountered in implementation as well as on strategies to overcome those obstacles, with a view to implementing fully the Platform for Action as well as taking further action and initiatives;

Recalls that, in keeping with General Assembly resolution 52/100, the Commission on the Status of Women will serve as the preparatory committee for the review and will be open-ended for the purposes of the preparations;

Decides that the preparatory work, which should be supported by inter-sessional consultations convened by the open-ended Bureau of the Commission on the Status of Women as needed, will be carried out by the Commission at its forty-third and forty-fourth sessions in the years 1999 and 2000, respectively, and that the forty-third and forty-fourth sessions will be extended by five days each to complete the preparations;

Calls upon the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the regional commissions, to develop a standardized questionnaire, with a focused set of indicators, on all critical areas of concern as a framework to assist national Governments in their assessment of and reporting on the implementation of the Platform for Action;

Encourages those Governments that have not yet done so to submit their national plans of action to the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat by September 1998 as an input to the start of the review during the forty-third session of the Commission, and encourages Governments to submit in 1999 information on their implementation of the Platform for Action, focusing particularly on positive actions, lessons learned, obstacles, key challenges remaining and a vision for gender equality in the next millennium;

Invites Governments to prepare their national evaluations on the implementation of the Platform for Action with the involvement of civil society;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite all entities of the United Nations system, including the specialized agencies, funds and programmes, to be involved actively in preparatory activities and to participate at the highest level in the special session, including through presentations on best practices, obstacles encountered and a vision for the future to accelerate implementation of the Platform for Action and address new and emerging trends;

Encourages appropriate regional preparatory activities for the special session, inter alia, by Governments in cooperation with the regional commissions, and recommends submission of the results as an input to the Commission at its forty-fourth session, in the year 2000;

Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its forty-third session, in addition to the documentation already foreseen in the long-term work programme of the Commission for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform for Action, suggestions on further initiatives and actions that might be considered during the review, with attention to mainstreaming gender equality and to common trends and themes across the twelve critical areas of concern;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide in the report on emerging issues, to be submitted to the Commission at its forty-fourth session, additional material on further actions and initiatives for the preparation of the outlook beyond the year 2000;

Invites the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to provide information in 1999 on the implementation of the Platform for Action, based on its review of reports of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;⁵

⁵Resolution 34/180, annex.

Invites the Secretary-General to integrate in his reports information from relevant treaty-monitoring bodies on their efforts, within their mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its special session a comparative report on how different categories of projects and programmes of United Nations organizations are including women’s interests and gender mainstreaming issues and on resources allocated in this regard;

Recommends that the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank focus on gender issues in the Human Development Report and the World Development Report for the year 2000;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide by the end of 1999 a compilation of updated statistics and indicators on the situation of women and girls in countries around the world by issuing, for example, a volume of The World’s Women;

Calls upon States, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations to undertake necessary measures with a view to providing appropriate information to the public on the implementation of the Platform for Action and the process of preparations for the special session of the General Assembly;

Emphasizes the important role of non-governmental organizations in implementing the Platform for Action and the need for their active involvement in preparations for the special session, as well as the need to ensure appropriate arrangements for their contributions to the special session;

Requests the Secretary-General to make available the necessary resources for the participation of the least developed countries at the special session in accordance with past practice.

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