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Advancement
of women
Date of
consideration: 11-13
October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/496
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Documents:
A/C.3/60/11 [F]
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Letter dated
7 November 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Spain to the
President of the General Assembly
A/60/38(Part I) [F]
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Report of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
thirty-second session (Suppl. No. 38, Part I)
A/60/38(Part II) [F]
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Report of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
thirty-second and thirty-third sessions (Suppl. No. 38, Parts I
and II combined)
A/60/62-E/2005/10 [F]
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Letter dated 23
November 2004 from the Permanent Representatives of Canada,
Jordan, Mexico, the Niger and Slovenia to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/79 [F]
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Identical letters
dated 18 May 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Qatar to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the
President of the General Assembly
A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5
July 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/137 [F]
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[R] A/60/137/Corr.1 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on violence against women migrant workers
A/60/165 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the improvement of the situation of women in
rural areas
A/60/206 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
A/60/211 [F]
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A/60/211/Add.1 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the in-depth study on all forms of violence
against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document
of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
A/60/274 [F]
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Note by the
Secretary-General transmitting the report on the activities of the
United Nations Development Fund for Women for 2004
A/60/281 [F]
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Report of the
Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the United
Nations International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women
A/60/371 [F]
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Letter dated
21 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of China to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/372 [F]
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Report of
Secretary-General on the future operation of the International
Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
A/60/444-S/2005/669 [F]
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Letter dated
24 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary:
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
At its
thirty-fourth session, in 1979, the General Assembly adopted
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (resolution 34/180). The
Convention entered into force on 3 September 1981. As at 31 March 2005, 180 States had ratified or acceded to the
Convention, 45 States parties to the Convention had accepted
the amendment of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Convention,
and 71 had ratified or acceded to the Optional Protocol to the
Convention.
The General
Assembly considered the question at its thirty-fifth to
forty-fifth, forty-seventh and forty-ninth to fifty-first and
fifty-third to fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 35/140,
36/131, 37/64, 38/109, 39/130, 40/39, 41/108, 42/60, 43/100,
44/73, 45/124, 47/94, 49/164, 50/202, 51/68, 53/118, 54/137,
55/70, 56/229, 57/178 and 58/145).
Pursuant to
resolution
34/180, the Committee on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women transmits to the General
Assembly through the Economic and Social Council every year a
report on its activities and makes suggestions and general
recommendations based on the examination of reports and
information received from the States Parties.
Pursuant to
resolution 45/124, the Secretary-General submits annually a
report on the status of the Convention (resolution
58/145).
United
Nations Development Fund for Women
At its
thirty-ninth session, in 1984, the General Assembly decided to
make the United Nations Development Fund for Women a separate
and identifiable entity in autonomous association with the
United Nations Development Programme (resolution 39/125).
The General
Assembly considered this item at its fortieth to fifty-sixth
sessions (resolutions 40/104, 42/63, 43/102, 44/74, 45/128,
46/97, 48/107, 50/166, 52/94, 54/136 and 56/130 and decision
41/426).
Pursuant to
resolution 39/125, the Secretary-General transmits to the
General Assembly every year a report on the activities of the
Fund, under the items entitled "Advancement of women" and
"Operational activities for development" (resolution
39/125).
Violence
against women migrant workers
The General
Assembly first considered this question at its forty-seventh
session, in 1992 (resolution 47/96), and subsequently annually
at its forty-eighth to fifty-second sessions and thereafter
biennially (resolutions 48/110, 49/165, 50/168, 51/65, 52/97,
54/138, and 56/131).
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to report to it at its sixtieth session on
the problem of violence against women migrant workers and on
the implementation of the resolution, taking into account
updated information from the organizations of the United
Nations system, in particular the International Labour
Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the
United Nations Development Fund for Women and the
International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, as well as the International
Organization for Migration and other relevant sources,
including non-governmental organizations (resolution
58/143).
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas
The General
Assembly considered this issue at its forty-fifth and
forty-sixth sessions, and thereafter biennially at its
forty-eighth, fiftieth, fifty-second, fifty-fourth and
fifty-sixth sessions (resolutions 45/175, 46/140, 48/109,
50/165, 52/93, 54/135 and 56/129).
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to report to it at its sixtieth session on
the implementation of the resolution, addressing different
aspects of the empowerment of rural women, including the
impact of macroeconomic policy frameworks on their situation
(resolution
58/146).
Elimination of domestic violence against women
The General
Assembly first considered this subject at its fifty-eighth
session, in 2003. At that session, it strongly condemned all
forms of domestic violence against women and girls, and in
that regard, called for the elimination of all forms of
gender-based violence in the family, including where condoned
by the State; invited relevant specialized agencies, United
Nations bodies, regional intergovernmental organizations and
non-governmental organizations to exchange information on the
subject of the resolution; and decided to continue its
consideration of the question at its sixtieth session
(resolution
58/147).
In-depth
study on all forms of violence against women
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to conduct an in-depth study, from existing
available resources and, if necessary, supplemented by
voluntary contributions, on all forms and manifestations of
violence against women, as identified in 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 entitled "Women 2000:
gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century", and to make the study available to all Member States
and observers, as well as other United Nations stakeholders,
and, on the basis of the study, to submit a report, with the
study as an annex, to the Assembly at its sixtieth session
(resolution
58/185).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly called upon all
States to continue to intensify efforts to prevent and
eliminate crimes against women and girls committed in the name
of honour, which took many different forms, by using
legislative, administrative and programmatic measures; and
requested the Secretary-General to report on the
implementation of the resolution in his report on the question
of violence against women to the Assembly at its sixtieth
session (resolution
59/165).
Also at its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on all
forms of violence against women, including crimes identified
in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of
the General Assembly, to the Assembly at its sixtieth session
(resolution
59/167).
Future
operation of the International Research and Training Institute
for the Advancement of Women
Pursuant to
its resolutions 45/175 of 18 December 1990 and 46/140 of 17 December 1991, the General Assembly has considered this
question in the Third Committee biennially in odd-numbered
years, at its forty-sixth, forty-eighth to fiftieth,
fifty-second and fifty-fourth sessions (resolutions 46/99,
48/105, 49/163, 50/163, 52/95 and 54/140). Thereafter, the
Assembly has considered the question annually (resolutions
55/219, 56/125, 57/175,
57/311 and
58/244).
At its
fifty-sixth session, the General Assembly decided to establish
a working group to make recommendations to the Assembly, for
its consideration by the end of 2002, on the future operation
of the Institute (resolution
56/125).
At its
fifty-seventh session, the General Assembly requested the
Institute to report to the Assembly, one year after the
appointment of a Director, on its programme of work and on the
implementation of the recommendations contained in the report
of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (see A/56/907)
(resolution
57/311).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly, welcoming the
constitution of the Executive Board of the Institute, in
particular the important results of its first session; decided
to provide its full support to the current efforts to
revitalize the Institute; and requested the Secretary-General
to report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the
implementation of the resolution (resolution
59/260).
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