A/RES/58/144. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/144
• Year: 2003
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/144

General Assembly Distr.: General

19 February 2004

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 110

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)]

58/144. Improvement of the status of women in the

United Nations system

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as

Article 8, which provides that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the

eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of

equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,

Recalling also

the goal, contained in the Platform for Action adopted by the

Fourth World Conference on Women,

1

of achieving overall gender equality,

particularly at the Professional level and above, by 2000 and the further actions and

initiatives set out in the outcome document adopted by the General Assembly at its

twenty-third special session, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development

and peace for the twenty-first century”,

2

Recalling further

its resolution 57/180 of 18 December 2002, as well as its

resolution 57/305 of 15 April 2003, in particular section II, paragraphs 39 to 41

thereof,

Taking note

of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/44 of 23 April

2003 on integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations

system,

3

in particular paragraph 15 thereof, in which the Commission recognized

that gender mainstreaming would strongly benefit from the enhanced and full

participation of women, including at the higher levels of decision-making within the

United Nations system,

Taking into account

the continuing lack of representation or

underrepresentation of women from certain countries, in particular from developing

countries, including least developed countries and small island developing States,

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1 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

2 Resolution S-23/3, annex.

3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II,

sect. A.