Declaration of the Commission on the Status of Women on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2005.

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6 subjects

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At its 34th plenary meeting, on 21 July 2005, the Economic and Social Council decided to transmit the following declaration to the General Assembly and to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the review of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

21 E/2005/4-DP/2005/13.

22 E/2005/5-DP/FPA/2005/2.

23 E/2005/6-E/ICEF/2005/3.

24 See E/2005/14.

25 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 14 (E/2004/34/Rev.1).

26 Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 14 (E/2005/34/Rev.1).

27 Ibid., 2004, Supplement No. 15 (E/2004/35).

28 DP/2005/14.

29 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 16 (E/2005/36).

30 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/60/39).

31 E/2005/83. The complete report is contained in E/CONF.96/3.

Declaration of the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

We, the representatives of Governments gathering at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, in the context of the review of the outcomes of the Conference and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, and its contribution to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the review of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,32 to be held from 14 to 16 September 2005,

Reaffirm the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action33 adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly;34

Welcome the progress made thus far towards achieving gender equality, stress that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and, in this regard, pledge to undertake further action to ensure their full and accelerated implementation;

Emphasize that the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is essential to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,32 and stress the need to ensure the integration of a gender perspective in the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the review of the Millennium Declaration;

Recognize that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the fulfilment of the obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women35 are mutually reinforcing in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women;

Call upon the United Nations system, international and regional organizations, all sectors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, as well as all women and men, to fully commit themselves and to intensify their contributions to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.

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