A/HRC/RES/42/14 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 4 October 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 26 September 2019 42/14. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other relevant international human rights instruments, Reaffirming also the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, and taking note of the outcome documents of its review conferences, and reaffirming also the General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, in which the Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the obligation of all States to promote and protect the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by all women and girls, Noting that 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which have contributed greatly to the progress made towards achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, Welcoming the progress made towards achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls while stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1. Decides to convene, during the high-level segment at its forty-third session, a high-level panel discussion to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, with a particular focus on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of its review conferences, as well as on achievements, best practices and challenges in this regard; 2. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as with civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, and national human rights institutions with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion, and to make it fully accessible for persons with disabilities; GE.19-17087(E) 