A/RES/63/159. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Year: 2008
• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/159
• Session: 63rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/63/159

General Assembly Distr.: General

4 February 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 56

08-48033

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/425)]

63/159. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women

and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and

Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third

special session of the General Assembly

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its previous resolutions on the question, including resolution 62/137

of 18 December 2007,

Deeply convinced

that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

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1

and

the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled

“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first

century”

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2

are important contributions to the achievement of gender equality and the

empowerment of women, and must be translated into effective action by all States,

the United Nations system and other organizations concerned,

Reaffirming

the commitments to gender equality and the advancement of women

made at the Millennium Summit,

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3

the 2005 World Summit

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4

and other major United

Nations summits, conferences and special sessions, and reaffirming also that their full,

effective and accelerated implementation are integral to achieving the internationally

agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

Welcoming

progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing 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,

Recognizing

that the responsibility for the implementation of the Beijing

Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special

session rests primarily at the national level and that strengthened efforts are

necessary in this respect, and reiterating that enhanced international cooperation is

essential for full, effective and accelerated implementation,

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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, annexes I and II.

2 Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.

3 See resolution 55/2.

4 See resolution 60/1.