Policy Resolutions

Policy Resolutions adopted by the GWI 34th triennial General Assembly can be accessed HERE. 

• Resolution 1: Securing increased Domestic Funding for Education to include equal and safe access to Digital Learning
• Resolution 2: Promoting and defending human rights of women in universities and other post-secondary forms of education
• Resolution 3: Workplace Harassment
• Resolution 4: To end under representation of women in media as a positive contribution to improve the status of all women in the world
• Resolution 5: Violence Against Women in Politics
• Resolution 6: Post Pandemic Recovery for Women and Girls
• Resolution 7: Climate Change and Gender
• Resolution 8: A Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment is a Human Right
• Resolution 9: Climate Emergency – Declarations and Action Plans
• Resolution 10: Single Use Plastics and Plastic Packaging

• GWI 2019 Resolution 1 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Diversity in Teacher Education
• GWI 2019 Resolution 2 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Building Peace through Women’s Education
• GWI 2019 Resolution 3 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Sexual and Reproductive Health Education as a Human Right
• GWI 2019 Resolution 4 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Women and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)solution 5 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Human Rights for Refugee and Migrant Women and Children
• GWI 2019 Resolution 6 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Fair and Non-Discriminatory Management of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
• GWI 2019 Resolution 7 Strategic Advocacy Plan: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• GWI 2019-2022 Resolution 8 Advocacy Plan: Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals

• Resolution 1 – Bullying
• Resolution 2 – Disability
• Resolution 3 – Polygamy
• Resolution 4 – Harassment
• Resolution 5 – Tolerance
• Resolution 6 – FGM
• Resolution 7 – Trafficking
• Resolution 8 – Child marriage
• Resolution 9 – Carbon taxes
• Resolution 10 – Young members

• Children to be Protected from Incest as a Form of Human and Children’s Rights Violation and as a Form of Domestic Violence (2013, No. 2)
• Early and Forced Marriage (child marriage) as a Form of Human and Children’s Rights Violations (2013, No. 1)
• Education for Indigenous Peoples (2013, No. 9)
• Globalization and Its Effects on Women and Girls in Developing Countries (2013, No. 12)
• Non-State Actor Torture (2013, No. 8)
• Prostitution of Women and Girls (2013, No. 10)
• Protection of Women and Children in War Zones through Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP) (2013, No. 11)
• Re-affirmation of Resolution 1998/7 with Update (2013, No. 4)
• Reaffirmation of Resolution 1998/4 with Update (2013, No. 3)
• Right to Safe Access to Education for All Girls and Women (2013, No. 7)
• To Propose that there Should Be One UN Women’s Representative (UNWR) per Country as Part of the National Governmental Delegation to the Yearly UN General Assembly (UNGA) (2013, No. 6)
• Working against Trafficking (2013, No. 5)

• Work-Life Balance for Women between Professional Careers and Family Responsibilities (2010, No. 1)
• Numeracy and Women (2010, No. 2)
• Financial Literacy (2010, No. 3)
• Abuse of Female Migrants (2010, No. 4)
• Human Trafficking Violates Human Rights (2010, No. 5)
• Bioethics and Women (2010, No. 6)
• Addressing Climate Change – Greenhouse Gas (2010, No. 7)
• Cluster Munitions (2010, No. 8)
• Peacekeeping (2010, No. 9)

• Women’s Role in Disease Prevention (2007, No. 5)
• Women in Leadership and Decision-Making Positions (2007, No. 1)
• A High-Level Women’s Agency For The United Nations (2007, No. 2)
• Religious Beliefs And Women’s Health (2007, No. 3)
• Commitment To The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (2007, No. 4)
• Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons And Averting The Weaponization Of Space (2007, No. 7)
• United Nations Peacekeeping (2007, No. 8)
• Remedying Environmental Damage Of Military Activities (2007, No. 9)
• Global Warming (2007, No. 10)
• Prevention Of Armaments Containing Depleted Uranium: A Human Rights Issue (2007, No. 6)

• Women in Decision-Making in World Financial Institutions (2004, No. 1)
• Women and Ageing (2004, No. 2)
• New Choices During the Life Cycle (2004, No. 3)
• Cultural Diversity and Education (2004, No. 4)
• Age Discrimination in Educational Funding (2004, No. 5)
• Commercial Exploitation of Children (2004, No. 6)
• Religion, Culture, Gender Equality and Women’s Rights (2004, No. 7)
• Small Arms and Light Weapons Control (2004, No. 8)
• Women – Essential to Peace (2004, No. 9)
• Protection of Water (2004, No. 10)
• Responsibility to Protect (2004, No. 11)
• Increased Collective Violence Against Women (2004, No. 12)

• Education and Career Training of Women in Prison (2001, No. 1)
• The Future of Women’s Employment (2001, No. 2)
• Education for Establishing a Society of Gender equality (2001, No. 3)
• Women’s and Gender Studies (2001, No. 4)
• Women’s Leadership (2001, No. 5)
• Educational Opportunities for Adolescent Mothers (2001, No. 6)
• Ethics and Education (2001, No. 7)
• Human Rights of Women Refugees (2001, No. 8)
• Advocating for Children (2001, No. 9)
• Children in Armed Conflict (2001, No. 10)
• Child Soldiers (2001, No. 11)
• Education for the Promotion of Peace (2001, No. 12)
• Conflict Resolution for Young Children (2001, No. 13)
• International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers (2001, No. 14)

• Right to Education (1998, No. 1)
• Higher Education (1998, No. 2)
• Continuing Education (1998, No. 3)
• Promoting Violence-Free Family Life (1998, No. 4)
• Valuing Parenting (1998, No. 5)
• Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children (1998, No. 6)
• Violence Directed against Women (1998, No. 7)
• Violence at School (1998, No. 8)
• Abuse of Women’s Human Rights (1998, No. 9)
• Human Cloning (1998, No. 10)
• The Application of Research in Human Genetics (1998, No. 11)
• Tobacco and Health (1998, No. 12)
• Health and the Environment (1998, No. 13)
• Desertification and Development (1998, No. 14)
• Sustainable Forestry (1998, No. 15)

• Adolescents (1995, No. 1)
• Fair Co-management (1995, No. 2)
• Unpaid Work (1995, No. 3)
• Career Development (1995, No. 4)
• Consequences of Global Mobility for Partners (1995, No. 5)
• Continual Training for Women Graduates (1995, No. 6)
• Gender Balance (1995, No. 7)
• Health Education (1995, No. 8)
• Mutual Respect and Understanding (1995, No. 9)
• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (1995, No. 10)
• NFA Follow-up to UN World Conferences (1995, No. 11)
• Rights of the Child (1995, No. 12)
• Ritual Abuse (1995, No. 13)
• Refugee Women and Girls (1995, No. 14)
• Family Planning (1995, No. 15)
• Protection of the Environment (1995, No. 16)
• Ozone Layer (1995, No. 17)
• Women’s Participation in the Peacemaking Process (1995, No. 18)
• Landmines (1995, No. 19)
• Nuclear Testing (1995, No. 20)

• Rape as a War Crime (1994, No. 5)
• Peaceful Resolution of Political Conflict (1994, No. 6)

• Education for All and Literacy (1992, No. 1)
• UNESCO UNITWIN Programme (1992, No. 2)
• Literacy and Women (1992, No. 3)
• Girls’ Self-esteem (1992, No. 4)
• Energy Conservation (1992, No. 5)
• Hazardous Waste (1992, No. 6)
• Endangered Ecosystems (1992, No. 7)
• 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992, No. 8)
• Marine Environment (1992, No. 9)
• Equitable Economic Policies (1992, No. 10)
• Development Indicators (1992, No. 11)
• Safe Motherhood (1992, No. 12)
• Family Planning (1992, No. 13)
• HIV/AIDS (1992, No. 14)
• Population (1992, No. 15)
• Women and Employment – Barriers to Equal Access (1992, No. 16)
• 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (1992, No. 17)
• Rights of the Child (1992, No. 18)
• Violence Against Women (1992, No. 19)
• Refugee Women (1992, No. 20)

• Energy Strategies (1991, No. 1)

• Military Expenditure (1989, No. 1)
• Environment (1989, No. 2)
• UN Commission on the Status of Women/Forward Looking Strategies (1989, No. 3)
• Human Fertilization (1989, No. 4)
• Family Planning (1989, No. 5)
• Autonomy of Institutions of Higher Education (1989, No. 6)
• Women and Academic Freedom (1989, No. 7)
• Shelter (1989, No. 8)
• Children in Armed Conflict (1989, No. 9)
• Balanced Education for All (1989, No. 10)

• World Health Organization Action Programme on Essential Drugs (1986, No. 1)
• Child Pornography (1986, No. 2)
• Nuclear Arms Freeze (1986, No. 3)
• Agricultural Training (1986, No. 4)
• Higher Education Statistics (1986, No. 5)
• Peace (1986, No. 6)
• Unpaid Work (1986, No. 7)
• Paid Work, Voluntary Work and the Value of the Family (1986, No. 8)
• UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless (1986, No. 9)
• Women and Leadership (1986, No. 10)

• Women and Peace (1983, No. 5)
• UN Voluntary Fund for Women (1983, No. 6)
• Computer Literacy (1983, No. 8)
• Women in the Media (1983, No. 10)
• International Development Strategy (1983, No. 11)
• UN Decade for Women (1983, No. 12)

• Project Five-O (1980, No. 2)
• New International Economic Order (1980, No. 4)
• Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1980, No. 5)
• International Development Strategy for the Third Development Decade (1980, No. 6)
• Politicization of Conferences (1980, No. 7)
• NFAs and CEDAW (1980, No. 8)
• SWCR/CEDAW (1980, No. 9)
• SWCR/CEDAW (1980, No. 10)
• Women in Decision-Making Positions (1980, No. 11)
• Life-long Learning (1980, No. 12)
• Cultural Identity (1980, No. 13)
• Science and Math Education (1980, No. 16)

• Media Support for the International Development Strategy of the 2nd UN Development Decade (1974, Seminar 1)
• Leadership Training (1974, No. 2)
• Need for Literacy Materials (1974, No. 3)
• UN Regional Commissions (1974, No. 4)
• International Women’s Year (1974, No. 5)

• Role of Mass Media in Literacy (1971, No. 1)
• Lack of Education and Employment Opportunities (1971, No. 2)
• Racism (1971, No. 3)
• Women and Society (1971, No. 4)
• Advancement of Women (1971, No. 5)
• High Commission for Human Rights (1971, No. 8)
• Pollution (1971, No. 9)
• Professional Advancement and Family Responsibilities (1971, No. 10)
• UN, Peace and Disarmament (1971, No. 11)
• Data Banks (1971, No. 12)

• Student Unrest (1969, No. 12)
• Racial Discrimination (1969, No. 13)
• Education of Handicapped Youth (1969, No. 14)
• Illiteracy (1969, No. 23)

• Implementation and Promotion of Human Rights (1968, No. 2)
• Demographic Studies (1968, No. 3)
• Vocational Training (1968, No. 4)
• Support for International Education Year (1968, No. 5)
• UN Declaration on Discrimination (1968, No. 10)
• Rights of the Child and Right to Reproductive Freedom (1968, No. 12)
• Slavery (1968, No. 13)

• NFA links with UNESCO and its National Commissions (1966, No. 6)
• Further Training for Women (1966, No. 7)
• Women on National Delegations and in the UN (1966, No. 10)

• UNESCO and Human Rights (1965, No. 8)
• Quality of Education (1965, No. 9)
• Women and Science Teaching (1965, No. 10)
• Adult Education (1965, No. 11)
• Women/Education/UNESCO (1965, No. 12)
• Part-Time Work (1965, No. 13)
• Re-entry to Work (1965, No. 14)
• Women and Scientific Employment (1965, No. 15)
• Population Growth (1965, No. 18)

• Study of Foreign Languages and Cultures (1962, No. 1)
• Discrimination in Education (1962, No. 6)
• Matrimonial Property (1962, No. 7)
• Discrimination in Employment (1962, No. 8)
• Night Work for Women (1962, No. 9)
• Girls and Careers (1962, No. 10)
• Women and Re-entry to the Labour Force (1962, No. 11)

• Lodging for Women Students (1961, No. 18)
• Mature Students (1961, No. 21)
• Women in Civil Service and UN (1961, No. 25)

• Women in New Professions (1959, No. 15)
• Women in UN Delegations and Secretariats(1959, No. 23)
• Nuclear Weapon Tests (1959, No. 29)

• Support for UNESCO (1958, No. 16)

• NFAs and the Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of Women (1957, No. 16)

• UN/CSW/Women in Delegations (1956, No. 5)

• Women and Public Appointments (1954, No. 21)

• Support for the United Nations (1950, No. 14)
• Equal Pay (1950, No. 15)

• Refugees (1948, No. 10)
• Exchange of Qualified Lecturers (1948, No. 7)

• Women’s Employment in Secondary Schools (1939, No. 6)
• Refugees (1939, No. 4)

• Peace and Disarmament Committee (1938, No. 13)

• Professional Exchanges (1936, No. 10)

• Women and Barriers to Employment (1934, No. 1)
• Education for International Understanding (1934, No. 2)

• Disarmament (1932, No. 3)
• Teacher Exchanges (1932, No. 9)

• Teacher Exchanges and Financial Remuneration (1931, No. 3)

• Staff Exchanges (1930, No. 3)

Women in Public Services (1928, No. 9)

International Relations (1925)