14 December 1981

Consideration within the United Nations of questions concerning the role of women in development

The General Assembly,

Recalling the objectives of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Recalling further its resolution 35/78 of 5 December 1980 in which it emphasized the need to integrate the objectives of the United Nations Decade for Women into the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade,

Taking note of the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Social Aspects of the Development Activities of the United Nations, prepared by the Working Group established pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1979/45 of 11 May 1979 and, in particular, paragraphs 80, 81 and 82 of the report,

Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General, which contains a comprehensive outline of a world survey on the role of women in development,

1. Recommends, in the light of paragraphs 80, 81 and 82 of the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Social Aspects of the Development Activities of the United Nations, that documents concerning the integration of women in development should be made available to the Third Committee under the relevant agenda item;

2. Expresses the desire that the recommendation in paragraph 1 above should be brought to the attention of the General Committee of the General Assembly;

3. Expresses also the desire that the Third Committee should be seized of the world survey on the role of women in development;

4. Requests the Commission on the Status of Women, at its twenty-

ninth session, to be held in February 1982, to give special attention under its agenda item 3, concerning the implementation of the World Plan of Action, to questions pertaining to the participation of women in development;

5. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Commission on the Status of Women is consulted in the preparation of the world survey on the role of women in development requested by the General Assembly in paragraph 10 of its resolution 35/78 and, to the extent possible, regarding any survey or proposed action concerning women.