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The Secretary
General of the United Nations regularly reports to the
General Assembly and the Commission on the Status of
Women on the improvement of the status of women in the
Secretariat and the UN System. This reporting is undertaken
though the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues
and Advancement of Women to the General Assembly in
during its annual regular session held between September
and December, and then again, as an update, to the Commission
on the Status of Women in March. In addition, the Secretary
General has issued bulletins pertaining to the
Status of Women in the Secretariat. In this section
you will find the reports issued by the Secretary General
to the General Assembly and CSW as well as the Secretary
General's bulletins related to gender.
In addition, you will
find in this section the resolutions of the General
Assembly on the improvement of the status of women in
the United Nations system. The General Assembly, which
is composed of representatives of all Member States,
is the main deliberative organ of the United Nations.
The work of the United Nations derives largely from
the decisions of the General Assembly - that is to say,
the will of the majority of the Member States as expressed
in resolutions adopted by the Assembly. Issues pertaining
to the status of women in the United Nations system
are considered by two of the Assembly's six Main Committees
- the Third Committee which considers social, humanitarian
and cultural questions and the Fifth Committee which
considers administrative and budgetary questions.
Pertinent General Assembly Documents
(all documents are in PDF  format and are
available
in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
Report of the
Secretary-General on the Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system:
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on the improvement of the status of women in the
United Nations system:
- A/RES/59/164
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- A/RES/58/144
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- A/RES/57/180
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- A/RES/56/127
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- A/RES/55/69
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Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Report of the Secretary-General on the
improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system:
Bulletins of the
UN Secretary General
Special measures to
improve the status of women in the Secretariat
The Secretary-General instituted a series of special measures
applicable to the recruitment, promotion and placement
of women. These measures, which were aimed at the achievement
of the goal of 50/50 gender distribution in the Secretariat,
will remain in effect until the Secretary-General is satisfied
that substantial progress towards the goal of gender balance
has been made. The special measures governing the selection
and placement of women candidates apply for the filing
of all vacant posts at the Professional level in every
department and office that has not met the goal of 50/50
gender distribution overall and at each grade level.
In order to further strengthen the applicability of the
special measures for the achievement of gender equality
in the Secretariat, a working group, chaired by the Special
Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, reviewed
and revised the special measures for the achievement of
gender equality contained in the administrative instruction
ST/AI/412. The revised special measures were issued as
(ST/AI/1999/9) on 21 September 1999.
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