Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations System : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Reaffirms the urgent goal of achieving 50/50 gender distribution in all categories of posts within the UN system; strongly encourages the Secretary-General, in the context of his commitment to set concrete targets for the appointment of women as his special representatives and special envoys in order to reach the target of 50/50 gender balance by 2015; strongly encourages Member States: (a) to support the efforts of UN and the specialized agencies, funds and programmes to achieve the goal of 50/50 gender distribution; (b) to identify women candidates for assignment to peacekeeping missions; (c) to identify and submit regularly more women candidates for appointment or election to intergovernmental, expert and treaty bodies; (d) to identify and nominate more women candidates for appointment or election as judges or other senior officials in international courts and tribunals; (e) to cooperate closely with the UN to facilitate spouse employment at all the major duty stations of the Secretariat and the organizations of the UN system.

Adopted without vote, 77th plenary meeting

6 p.

Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.