A/RES/73/144
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 28 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/581)]
73/144.
Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year
of the Family and beyond
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/82 of 8 December 1989, 50/142 of 21 December
1995, 52/81 of 12 December 1997, 54/124 of 17 December 1999, 56/113 of
19 December 2001, 57/164 of 18 December 2002, 58/15 of 3 December 2003, 59/111
of 6 December 2004, 59/147 of 20 December 2004, 60/133 of 16 December 2005,
62/129 of 18 December 2007, 64/133 of 18 December 2009, 66/126 of 19 December
2011, 67/142 of 20 December 2012, 68/136 of 18 December 2013, 69/144 of
18 December 2014, 71/163 of 19 December 2016 and 72/145 of 19 December 2017
concerning the proclamation of, preparations for and observance of the International
Year of the Family and its tenth and twentieth anniversaries,
Recognizing that the preparations for and observance of the twentieth
anniversary of the International Year in 2014 provided a useful opportunity to
continue to raise awareness of the objectives of the International Year for increasing
cooperation on family issues at all levels and for undertaking concerted action to
strengthen family-centred policies and programmes as part of an integrated
comprehensive approach to development,
Recognizing also that the objectives of the International Year and its follow-up
processes, especially those relating to family policies in the areas of poverty, work family balance and intergenerational issues, with attention given to the rights and
responsibilities of all family members, can contribute to ending poverty, ending
hunger, ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages, promoting
lifelong learning opportunities for all, ensuring better education outcomes for
children, including early childhood development and education, enabling access to
employment opportunities and decent work for parents and caregivers, achieving
gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and eliminating all
forms of violence, in particular against women and girls, and supporting the overall
quality of life of families, including families in vulnerable situations, so that family
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