United Nations Decade for Women.
- Author: UN General Assembly (34th sess. : 1979-1980)
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Date:
17 December 1979
34. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
155. United Nations Decade for Women
1. Calls upon Member States to ensure, as regards both education and access to public functions of a social, economic, administrative or political character, conditions of equality between men and women and promotion without discrimination;
2. Requests the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace to consider, under the general theme "Development", appropriate means of ensuring the more effective participation of women in the planning and policy processes of their Governments and more adequate reflection of their needs and concerns in those processes;
3. Further requests the Conference to consider, under the sub-theme "Employment, Health and Education", the conditions necessary for ensuring equal access of women and men to positions of responsibility which will enable them to participate in the formulation of national policies in those fields;
4. Calls upon Governments to take steps to ensure effective participation of women in the decision-making process with respect to foreign policy and international economic and political co-operation, including steps to ensure that they have equal access to diplomatic functions and that they are represented in the United Nations and other international organizations.
105th plenary meeting17 December 1979
[1] Resolution 640 (VII), annex. [2] Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. [3] Resolution 2542 (XXIV).
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