Women in development
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Welcoming also the holding of the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender
Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action, on 27 September
2015, and the pledges submitted by Governments in this regard,
Reaffirming the commitments to gender equality and the advancement of
women made at the Millennium Summit 3 and at the 2005 World Summit, 8 in the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
entitled “The future we want”, 9 and at other major United Nations summits,
conferences and special sessions, and reaffirming also that their full, effective and
accelerated implementation is integral to achieving the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling the outcomes of the International Conference on Financing for
Development 10 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 11 the Doha
Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow -up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 12 the Outcome of the Conference on
the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development 13 and the
outcomes of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals, 14 the high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS, 15 the
high-level meetings of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of
non-communicable diseases, 16 the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, 17 the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries, 18 the third International Conference on Small Island
Developing States, 19 the high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs, 20 the
high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons
with disabilities: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development agenda
towards 2015 and beyond, 21 the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and
Development, 22 the Lima work programme on gender 23 and the Sendai Framework
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Resolution 60/1.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
10
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
11
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex, and resolution 2, annex.
12
Resolution 63/239, annex.
13
Resolution 63/303, annex.
14
Resolution 65/1.
15
Resolution 65/277, annex.
16
Resolutions 66/2, annex, and 68/300.
17
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chaps. I and II.
18
Resolution 69/137, annexes I and II.
19
Resolution 69/15, annex.
20
Resolution 63/1.
21
Resolution 68/3.
22
Resolution 68/4.
23
FCCC/CP/2014/10/Add.3, decision 18/CP.20.
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3/15