Declaration issued by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session

18/03/2005
Commission on the Status of Women
Forty-ninth session
28 February- 11 March 2005
Agenda item 3 (c)
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for tbe twenty-first century": implementation of strategic objectives and action in the critical areas of concern and further actions and initiatives.

We, the representatives of Governments gathering at the fony-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 the contribution of the Commission to the high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly o­n the review of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, to be held from 14 to 16 September 2005;

 

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

 

2. Welcome the progress mađe 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 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;

 

3. Emphasize that the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Plalform for Action is essential to achieving the intemationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and stress the need to ensure the integration of a gender perspective in the high-level plenary meeting o­n the review of the Millennium Deelaration;

 

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

 

5. Call upon the United Nations system, intemational and regional organizations, all sectors of civil society, including non-govemmental organiations, 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 Assembiy.

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