Interagency programme for the United Nations Decade for Women.

32. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
138. Interagency programme for the United Nations Decade for Women

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 3520 (XXX) of 15 December 1975, in which it proclaimed the period from 1976 to 1985 United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, to be devoted to effective and sustained national, regional and international action to implement the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women's Year[1] and related resolutions[2] adopted by the World Conference of the International Women's Year, Recalling further that in its resolution 31/136 of 16 December 1976 it approved the Programme for the United Nations Decade for Women[3] which focused on the first half of the Decade, 1976-1980, Noting that the joint interagency programme for the integration of women in development, whose establishment was called for in paragraph 5 (b) of General Assembly resolution 3520 (XXX), has become an interagency programme for the United Nations Decade for Women based on the implementation of the World Plan of Action, for the formulation of which the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs serves as focal point, Noting also that this programme was drawn up in July 1977 in the context of the conceptual framework and the co-ordination of ongoing activities and planned activities of the agencies concerned, Noting further that this programme, which should be brought up to date every two years, is currently the subject of a study which is to be considered by the special interagency meeting on the United Nations Decade for Women to be held in July 1978 with a view to preparing for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women,

1. Notes the measures already taken by the Secretary-General to implement the Programme for the United Nations Decade for Women;[4]

2. Emphasizes that constant and increasing efforts must be made at the national, regional and international levels to attain the objectives of the Decade;

3. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with all the interested agencies and organizations of the United Nations, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council, the study of the interagency programme accompanied by the observations formulated by the Council with regard to it;

4. Further requests the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments every two years the study of the interagency programme for the Decade;

5. Urges the interested agencies and organizations of the United Nations system to identify and undertake as quickly as possible projects to be executed jointly.

105th plenary meeting
16 December 1977

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[1] Report of the World Conference on the International Women's Year (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.1), chap. II, sect. A. [2] Ibid., chap. III. [3] Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 3 (E/5909), annex V. [4] A/32/175.