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● Item 61: Advancement of women:
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(a) Advancement of women
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♦ 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 2006, 182 States had ratified or acceded to the Convention, 48 States parties to the Convention had accepted the amendment of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Convention, and 78 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.
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly invited the Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to address the Assembly at its sixty-first and sixty-second sessions under the item on the advancement of women (resolution 60/230).
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.
♦ In-depth study on all forms of violence against women
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to compile, as reference and guidance, successful interventions and strategies in addressing the various dimensions of the particular problem of trafficking in women and children, in particular girls, based on reports, research and other materials from within the United Nations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as from outside the United Nations, and to submit a report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-first session (resolution 59/166).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly decided to extend the deadline for submission of the report of the Secretary-General on an in-depth study on all forms and manifestations of violence against women to the sixty-first session of the Assembly and to consider it under the item entitled “Advancement of women” at its sixty-first session (resolution 60/136).
♦ Status of women in the United Nations system
The General Assembly has considered this question since its fifty-seventh session (resolutions 57/180 and 58/144).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested increased and sustained efforts towards full implementation of resolution 58/144 and requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-first session on the implementation of the resolution, including by providing up-to-date statistics on all levels of the United Nations system (resolution 59/164).
(b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
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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-ninth sessions (resolutions 50/203, 51/69, 52/100, 52/231, 53/120, 55/71, 56/132, 57/182, 58/148 and 59/168).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to continue to report annually to the Assembly, under the item entitled “Advancement of women”, as well as to the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council, 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 in gender mainstreaming, including information on key achievements, lessons learned and good practices, and to recommend further measures to enhance implementation (resolution 60/140).
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