A/RES/77/196
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 26
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/456, para. 61)]
77/196.
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 62/138 of 18 December 2007, 63/158 of 18 December
2008, 65/188 of 21 December 2010 and 67/147 of 20 December 2012 on supporting
efforts to end obstetric fistula and its resolutions 69/148 of 18 December 2014, 71/169
of 19 December 2016, 73/147 of 17 December 2018 and 75/159 of 16 December 2020
on the intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1 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”, 2 the Programme
of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 3 and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 4 and their
reviews, and the international commitments in the field of social development and to
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made at the Wo rld
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance 5 and the 2005 World Summit, 6 as well as those made in the outcome
document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post -2015
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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.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6 –12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
Resolution 60/1.
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