A/RES/74/142
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70
Promotion and protection of human rights
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399)]
74/142.
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The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and also that all forms of discrimination, including
discrimination against women and girls, are contrary to the Charter of the United
Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4 the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5 the International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 6 and other relevant human rights instruments,
Reaffirming also the commitment made to gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls, contained in the outcome documents of relevant
international conferences and summits, in particular the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Wome n 7 and the
outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 8
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
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 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
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