A/RES/70/219. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/219
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/219

General Assembly

Distr.: General

15 February 2016

Seventieth session

Agenda item 24 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/476/Add.2)]

70/219 . Women in develo pment

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling it s resolu tions 5 0/104 o f 20 De cember 1995, 52/195 of 18 D ecember

1997 , 54/ 210 o f 22 Decembe r 19 99, 5 6/188 of 21 D ecember 2001 , 58 /206 of

23 Dece mber 200 3, 59/248 of 22 De cember 20 04, 60/21 0 of 22 De cember 2 005,

62/2 06 of 1 9 Decemb er 200 7, 64/21 7 of 2 1 Decem ber 200 9, 66/21 6 of 22 Decemb er

2011, 68/2 27 o f 20 Decembe r 201 3, 6 9/236 of 19 Dece mber 2014 and all i ts ot her

resol utions on women in deve lopment, and the reso lutions and agre ed c onclusio ns

adop ted by the C ommissi on on the St atus of Wome n, incl uding the d eclarati ons

adop ted at i ts forty -ninth

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and fifty-fo urth ses sions,

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Reaf firmi ng the U nited Nati ons Millen nium Decla ration,

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whi ch affirms tha t

the equal rights and op portuni ties of women and men m ust be assure d and calls for,

inter alia, the p romotio n of gender equalit y and the emp owerme nt of wome n as

bein g effe ctive in and essen tial t o era dicating pov erty a nd hu nger, comba ting

dise ases and stimula ting dev elopmen t that i s truly sustaina ble,

Reaf firmi ng a lso its resol ution 70/1 of 25 Sep tember 2015 , entit led

“Tran sforming our w orld: t he 2030 Agend a for Sustaina ble Dev elopmen t”, in which

it adop ted a compre hensive , f ar-reach ing and peop le-centr ed set of unive rsal and

tran sformati ve S ustainab le D evelopm ent Goals and targ ets, its comm itment to

work ing tire lessly f or the full im plement ation of this A genda b y 2030, its

reco gnition that eradi cating pover ty in all its f orms a nd dim ensions, inclu ding

extr eme p overty, is the g reatest glob al ch allenge and an indisp ensable requ irement

for sustai nable develo pment, its commit ment to ac hieving sust ainable devel opment

in i ts thr ee dime nsions — e conomic, socia l and environ mental — in a ba lanced and

integ rated mann er, an d to buil ding upon the ac hievemen ts o f the Mill ennium

Deve lopment Goals a nd seek ing to a ddress their u nfinishe d busine ss,

Reaf firmi ng fu rthe r its re solutio n 69/3 13 of 27 Ju ly 201 5 on the Addis Ababa

Acti on Age nda of the Third Intern ational Co nference on F inancin g for

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1

See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 a nd corrigendum

(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.

2

Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.

3

Resolution 55/2.