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Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth
World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: gender
equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century"
Date of
consideration: 11-13
October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/498
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Documents:
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/60/170 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the 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
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/60/371 [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
Summary:
This item was
included in the agenda of the fiftieth session of the General
Assembly in 1995. At that session, the Assembly endorsed the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as adopted at the
Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995
(resolution 50/42).
The General
Assembly considered the item at its fiftieth to fifty-third
and fifty-fifth to fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 50/203,
51/69, 52/100, 52/231, 53/120, 55/71, 56/132, 57/182 and
58/148).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly stressed that all
forms of violence against women, including crimes identified
in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of
the Assembly, were obstacles to the advancement and
empowerment of women; reaffirmed that violence against women
both violated and impaired or nullified the enjoyment by women
of their human rights and fundamental freedoms; and requested
the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the
matter to the Assembly at its sixtieth session (resolution
59/167).
At the same
session, the General Assembly, inter alia, requested the
Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly,
the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the
Status of Women on the follow-up to and progress made in the
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session,
with an assessment of progress made in mainstreaming a gender
perspective within the United Nations system, including by
providing information on key achievements, lessons learned and
best practices, and to recommend further measures and
strategies for future action within the United Nations system
(resolution
59/168).
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