World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women

A/RES/35/136View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 80a World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1978–1981

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1981	A/RES/35/136	World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women	1,282	—
1980	A/RES/34/158	World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women	—	—
1978	A/RES/32/140	World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women	578	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Women in Development Women's Advancement

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace;

Endorses the Programme of Action for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade for Women, as adopted at the Conference;

Recognizes that the Conference made an important and constructive contribution by appraising the progress achieved and the obstacles encountered in the implementation of the objectives of the Decade and by preparing and adopting a programme for the next five years:

Affirms that the implementation of the Programme of Action should result in the complete in-

tegration of women into the development process and the elimination of all forms of inequality between men and women and will guarantee broad participation by women in efforts to strengthen peace and security throughout the world;

Affirms, in particular, that the implementation of the Programme of Action and of the relevant recommendations, decisions and resolutions of the Conference will contribute to the effective attainment of the objectives of the Decade;

Urges Governments to take appropriate measures to implement the Programme of Action and other relevant resolutions and decisions at the national, regional and international levels;

Requests, in particular, Member States when preparing and evaluating the execution of projects, programmes and plans of action at national, regional and international meetings to pay special attention to measures for the involvement and benefit of women:

Calls upon all Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations to intensify, at regional levels, the dissemination of information and the exchange of experiences on the participation of women in all relevant programmes and information activities with a view to achieving the objectives of the Decade:

Requests the regional commissions to consider the Programme of Action with a view to formulating appropriate programmes for implementing the recommendations contained therein, including the organization of seminars, symposia and meetings which will contribute towards furthering the integration of women into the development process and the achievement of the objectives of the Decade;

Urges the regional commissions to report in full to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1982 on the specific aspects of the situation of women in all the sectors of their development programmes, in order to strengthen and reorient the reporting methods of those commissions so as to reflect more adequately the regional concerns of women, and thereafter to report on the same subject every two years;

Urges all the organizations of the United Nations system to take the necessary measures to ensure a concerted and sustained effort for the implementation of the Programme of Action and of other relevant resolutions and decisions of the Conference in the course of the second half of the Decade, with a view to achieving a substantial improvement in the status of women and to ensuring that all their programmes take into account the need for the complete integration of women:

· Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1981 proposals for the implementation of the Programme of Action, taking into account the need for the speedy establishment of the new international economic order and the implementation of the goals and objectives of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, which are indispensable for the advancement of women:

Also requests the Secretary-General to consider appropriate measures to enable the Commission on the Status of Women to discharge the functions assigned to it for the implementation of the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the I nternational Women's Year and the Programme of Action for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade for Women, and also requests him to take immediate action to strengthen the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat at Vienna;

Further requests the Secretary-General and international organizations to take all the necessary action to establish, where they do not already exist, focal points in all sectors of the organizations of the United Nations system in order to co-ordinate questions relating to women and integrate them into their work programmes;

Invites the Secretarv-General to circulate the report of the Conference ani'ong Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in order to ensure that it is publicized and disseminated as widely as possible:

Also invites the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a report on the measures taken to implement the present resolution:

Decides to convene in 1985, at the conclusion of the Decade, a World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women:

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth sessi'on the item entitled "United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace··.

11 0 See Report of the World Conference of the International Women's Year. Mexico City, 19 June-:! July /975 (United Nations publication.

' Sales No. E.76.IV.1 I. chap. I.

·: Ibid .. chap. 11. sect. A.

·, See sect. V. resolution J:i/56, annex.

'United Nations publication. Sales No. L.80.IV.J and corrigendum.

., Ibid .. chap. I.

VI.

,,, Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Copenhagen, 14-30 July /980 (United Nations publication, Sales No E.80.IV.3 and corrigendum), chap. I, sect. A.

'· /hid., sect. B.

'' :\ 'J) 1:,23 and Corr I .,, lhrd., sect. I L

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