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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/161
9 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 97
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/607)]
49/161.
Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking
Strategies for the Advancement of Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 44/77
of 8 December 1989, in which, inter alia, it endorsed and reaffirmed the
importance of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of
Women 1/ for the period up to the year 2000 and set out measures for their
immediate implementation and for the overall achievement of the interrelated
goals and objectives of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality,
Development and Peace,
Recalling also its resolutions 46/98 of 16 December 1991, 47/95 of
16 December 1992 and 48/108 of 20 December 1993,
Taking into consideration the resolutions adopted by the Economic and
Social Council on issues relating to women since the adoption of its
resolution 1987/18 of 26 May 1987,
Reaffirming its determination to encourage the full participation of
women in economic, social, cultural, civil and political affairs and to
promote development, cooperation and international peace,
Conscious of the important and constructive contribution to the
improvement of the status of women made by the Commission on the Status of
Women, the specialized agencies, the regional commissions and other
1/
Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the
Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development
and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No.
E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect. A.
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