Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its 60th session :
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: December 11, 2006
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16 Dec. 2005 GA/10437 without vote |
A/60/505, draft res. I |
The girl child |
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A/60/504 | 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 |
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A/60/503, draft res. V |
Violence against women migrant workers |
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A/60/503, draft res. III |
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas |
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A/60/503, draft res. II |
United Nations Development Fund for Women |
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In-depth study on all forms of violence against women |
**Advancement of
Women
The Committee’s report on the
advancement of women (document A/60/503) contains six draft resolutions
and one draft decision.
Draft resolution I on the
in-depth study on all forms of violence against women requests that the
Secretary-General seize all opportunities to raise awareness on the conduct of
the study and solicit contributions, as well as to continue to strengthen
cooperation with relevant non-governmental organizations in the preparation of
the study.
The Assembly would also decide to
extend to its sixty-first session the deadline for submission of the report in
subparagraph (d) of its resolution 58/185, in time for its in-depth
consideration at that session, at the latest by early September 2006, and to
consider the report at its sixty-first session under the item entitled
“advancement of women”.
Draft resolution II on the
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) would have the
Assembly encourage the Fund to help harmonize and coordinate United Nations
reform through strengthened partnerships with other funds, programmes and
organizations to promote women’s human rights and gender equality in policies
and guidelines developed by the United Nations Development Group. It would
also urge the United Nations system to use the Fund’s technical and coordination
experience on gender issues and to undertake gender mainstreaming.
Further, the Assembly would
emphasize the importance of the Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate
Violence against Women, and would urge Governments, non-governmental
organizations and the private sector to increase contributions to the Fund.
It would also encourage the Fund to continue to support the gender
equality and women’s empowerment goals and targets of the Declaration of
Commitment on HIV/AIDS, and to respond to country requests to develop and
strengthen accountability mechanisms for gender equality, including countries’
gender-responsive budget analyses and sex-disaggregated data as a basis for
formulating gender-responsive public policy.
Draft resolution III on
improvement of the situation of women in rural areas would have the
Assembly invite Member States to continue implementing the outcome of and ensure
follow-up to United Nations conferences and summits and to improve national,
regional and global development strategies for women’s advancement. That
would include, among other things, ensuring rural women’s participation in
developing and monitoring macroeconomic policies and Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers; pursuing rural women’s political and socio-economic empowerment through
affirmative action and other support, taking into account their perspectives in
emergency and humanitarian relief; and investing in basic services, education,
literacy, social and health services. That would also entail developing
assistance programmes and advisory services for rural women’s economic
empowerment in banking, modern trading and financial procedures and microcredit,
as well as designing and revising laws to ensure rural women’s equal rights to
land and other property, credit, capital and technologies.
Draft resolution IV on the
future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) would have the Assembly request that INSTRAW
actively participate in discussions on international migration and development,
particularly the General Assembly’s high-level dialogue in September 2006.
It would also stress the importance of Member States’ voluntary contributions to
the United Nations Trust Fund for INSTRAW and would urge them to contribute to
the Fund, particularly during this critical transitional period. Further,
it would have the Assembly decide to provide full support to current efforts to
revitalize INSTRAW, and the requisite funds to carry out its core functions for
at least the next three years.
Draft resolution V on violence
against women migrant workers would have the Assembly request that all
Governments continue to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteurs of the
Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Violence against Women.
The Assembly would also call on Governments to incorporate a gender
perspective in all policies on international migration, and urge concerned
Governments, particularly those of the countries of origin and destination, to
further strengthen national efforts to protect and promote the rights and
welfare of women migrant workers, and to support and allocate appropriate
resources for programmes aimed at strengthening preventive action.
The Assembly would also call on
concerned Governments, particularly those of the countries of origin and
destination, to put in place penal and criminal sanctions to punish perpetrators
of violence against women migrant workers and to provide victims of violence
with immediate assistance and protection, as well as encourage non-governmental
organizations to do so. In addition, it would encourage Governments to
create and implement sensitivity and skills training programmes for law
enforcement, prosecutors and service providers who deal with abused women
migrant workers, as well as encourage them to adopt or strengthen existing
measures to protect migrant workers rights in recruitment and deployment
practices, in order to prevent exploitation, ill-treatment and
trafficking.
Draft resolution VI on the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women would have the Assembly urge States parties to comply fully with their
obligations under the Convention and the Optional Protocol, as well as urge
Governments, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to disseminate the
Convention and the Optional Protocol. The Assembly would also encourage
all relevant United Nations entities to continue to build women’s knowledge of
and capacity to utilize human rights instruments, particularly the Convention
and the Optional Protocol.
The draft decision on the
Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of the
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement
of Women would have the Assembly take note of that report (document
A/60/281).
**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”
The Committee’s report on
implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and
full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action and the
outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
(document A/60/504) contains one draft resolution.
The draft on 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 would have the Assembly call on Governments,
the United Nations system, other international organizations and civil society
to fully commit to and step up contributions to implement the Beijing
Declaration, Platform of Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session. It would also call on States parties to fully comply with their
obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, and call on non-parties
to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Protocol.
Further to that text, the Assembly
would call on Governments, United Nations relevant funds, programmes and special
agencies, as well as invite international financial institutions and civil
society, to intensify action to fully implement the three outcomes through,
among other things, sustained national, regional and international political
commitment to mainstream gender perspectives into all policies and programmes,
and strengthening national institutional mechanisms for gender equality and
women’s advancement through financial and other assistance.
Further, the Assembly would
strongly encourage Governments to continue to support civil society,
particularly non-governmental organizations and women’s groups, to implement the
Declaration, Platform of Action and special session outcome. It would also
call on the United Nations system to continue to ensure their implementation
through the work of the Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and
Advancement of Women, gender specialists, and training and support for personnel
in gender mainstreaming.
**Promotion and Protection of
the Rights of Children
The Committee’s report on the
promotion and protection of the rights of children (document A/60/505)
contains two draft resolutions.
Draft resolution I on the girl
child would have the Assembly urge States to take all necessary measures and
to institute legal reforms to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by the girl
child of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to take effective action
against violations of those rights and freedoms.
Further to that text, the Assembly
would urge States to promote gender equality and equal access to basic social
services, such as education, nutrition, health care, including sexual and
reproductive health care, vaccinations, as well as promote protection from major
killer diseases and mainstream a gender perspective in all development policies
and programmes. It would also urge States to take special measures to
protect girls affected by armed conflicts, such as in the delivery of
humanitarian assistance and disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation
assistance and reintegration processes.
Draft resolution II on the
rights of the child refers to implementation of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols; promotion and protection of the
rights of the child; promoting and protecting the rights of children, including
children in particularly difficult situations; prevention and eradication of the
sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; children affected by
armed conflict; children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS; and
follow-up.
By the terms of the text, the
Assembly would urge States that have not yet done so, to consider signing and
ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocols to the Convention and fully
implement them through effective national legislation, withdraw reservations
that are incompatible with the Convention or its Optional Protocols and consider
reviewing other reservations with a view to withdrawing them.
Concerning registration, family
relations and adoption, the Assembly would once again urge all States to step up
efforts to comply with their obligations under the Convention to preserve a
child’s identity, including nationality and family relations; allow for
registration of the child immediately after birth; ensure simple, expeditious
and effective registration procedures at minimal cost; and raise awareness of
the importance of local, national and regional birth registration.
Concerning the economic and social
well-being of children, the Assembly would call upon States and the
international community to create an environment that would, among other things,
support poverty-eradication, the right of the child to the highest attainable
standard of health and social services, equal opportunity and access to
education, and social services for pregnant and adolescent mothers.
Also, the Assembly would condemn
all forms of violence against children, including physical mental and sexual
violence, torture, child abuse and exploitation, hostage taking and domestic
violence. In addition, it would condemn the abduction of children,
particularly extortion of children in armed conflict, and urge States to prevent
and protect children from all forms of violence, investigate and prosecute cases
of torture and other forms of violence against children, end impunity for
perpetrators, criminalize and penalize effectively sexual exploitation and
sexual abuse of children.
Regarding children affected by
armed conflict, the Assembly would strongly condemn the recruitment or use of
children in such conflict and related violations and abuses, and would urge
States and other parties engaged in such practices to end them. It would
also call on States to raise the minimum age of voluntary recruitment into the
national armed forces to age 18 and adopt safeguards against forced and coerced
recruitment.
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