A/RES/2587(XXIV) GA

60 General Assembly-Twenty-fourth Session ------------------------------------ -- -- --------- these considerations into full account and to include them in an appropriate form in its report on the Decade. 1834th plenary meeting, I 5 December I 969. 2587 (XXIV). Commission on the Status of Women The General Assembly, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 48 (IV) of 29 March 1947, in which the functions of the Commission on the Status of Women are defined as follows: ' (a) To prepare recommendations and reports to the Economic and Social Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educa- tional fields, (b) To make recommendations to the Council on urgent problems requiring immediate attention in the field of women's rights with the object ofimplementing the principle that men and women shall have equal rights, and to develop proposals to give effect to such recommendations, Recalling further its resolution 532 A (VI) of 4 February 1952, in which it resolved to request the Economic and Social Council to continue to convene the Commission on the Status of Women for one ses- sion each year and the Council's decision of 15 August 19643Z to continue to convene the Commission on an annual basis, Appreciating the importance of resolution IX of the International Conference on Human Rights, adopted on 12 May 1968,33 which lays down guidelines for the future work of the Commission on the Status of Women, and Economic and Social Council resolution 1133 (XLI) of 26 July 1966 on the unified long-term United Nations programme for the advancement of women, in which the Secretary-General was requested to draw up a questionnaire on the role which women could play in the economic and social development of their countries, Believing that the work of the Commission on the Status of Women has reached a decisive stage, particu- larly with respect to the implementation of the Decla- ration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the preparation and implementation of a unified long-term United Nations programme for the advancement of women, Believing further that the achievement of the Com- mission's aims demands a sustained effort at the pres- ent time, and more especially during the next few years, Urges the Economic and Social Council to recon- sider its decision of 8 August 196984 so that the Com- mission on the Status of Women may continue to meet 82 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. I (E/3970), p. 35, "Review of the pattern of conferences and calendar of confer- ences and meetings for 1965", sub-para. (d). aa Final Act of the International Conference on Human Rights (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.68.XIV.2), p. 10. U See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Forty-seventh Session, Resolutions (E/4735), p. 18, "Measures to improve the organization of the work of the Council", sub-para. (c). annually, preferably three months after the General Assembly. 1834th plenary meeting, 15 December 1969. 2588 (XXIV). Implementation of the reoom• mendations of the International Conference on Human Rights A The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 1961 (XVIII) of 12 De- cember 1963 designating the year 1968 as International Year for Human Rights and the relevant resolutions thereon, Recalling also its resolution 2442 (XXIII) of 19 December 1968 on the International Conference on Human Rights, Noting the Secretary-General's reports on the im- plementation of the recommendations of the Interna- tional Conference on Human Rights35 and on mea- sures and activities undertaken in connexion with the International Year for Human Rights, 36 Convinced that the International Conference on Human Rights provided an impetus to positive action towards achieving the full realization of human rights and the elimination of violations and denials of those rights, Noting with satisfaction the measures that have been taken and the progress that has been achieved in the implementation of the recommendations of the Inter- national Conference on Human Rights by Govern- ments, United Nations organs, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental organizations concerned, 1. Expresses its appreciation to Governments, United Nations organs, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations genuinely concerned with human rights which have contributed to the observance of the Inter- national Year for Human Rights; 2. Further expresses its appreciation to the Secre- tary-General for his effective co-ordination of the mea- sures and activities undertaken in connexion with the International Year for Human Rights and for the informative reports which he has submitted thereon to the General Assembly; 3. Expresses the hope that the measures and activi- ties undertaken on the occasion of the International Year for Human Rights by Governments, United Nations organs, specialized agencies, regional inter- governmental organizations and non-governmental or- ganizations genuinely concerned with human rights will be continued, developed and enlarged, and that the initiatives which have emerged from the observance of the International Year for Human Rights will serve as -guidelines for action-oriented programmes designed to ensure that the work accomplished in 1968 shall be pursued; 4._ {nvites G?vernments, _United Nations organs, spec1al12ed agencies and other mtergovernmental organi- za!ions concerned to continu~ to give effect, as appro- pnate, to the recommendations of the International Conference on Human Rights, bearing in mind the 3~ A/7661. 36 A/7666 and Add.l and 2.

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