E/CN.6/2021/L.3
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: Limited
30 March 2021
Original: English
Commission on the Status of Women
Sixty-fifth session
15–26 March 2021
Agenda item 3 (a) (i)
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to
the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century”: implementation of
strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern and
further actions and initiatives: priority theme: women’s full
and effective participation and decision-making in public life,
as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making
in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for
achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls
Agreed conclusions
1.
The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, 1 the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of
the General Assembly 2 and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the
occasion of the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth
World Conference on Women. 3
2.
The Commission reiterates that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women 4 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5
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21-04183 (E)
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution I, annexes I and II.
General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and
corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7
and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 7
(E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. C, resolution 59/1; and ibid., 2020, Supplement No. 7 (E/2020/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
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