Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace

UN Resolution World Conference of the International Women's Year
Date	2 July 1975
Meeting no.	World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City, Mexico. 19 June-2 July 1975
Code	E/CONF.66/34 (Document)
Subject	Declaration from the International Women's Year World Conference on Women.
Result	Approved

Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and their Contribution to Development and Peace 66/34 was a resolution adopted by the UN at the end of the International Women's Year World Conference on Women on 2 July 1975. The resolution adopted to promulgate a set of principles concerning the equality of men and women.

The World Conference of the International Women's Year,

Aware that the problems of women, who constitute half of the world's population, are the problems of society as a whole, and that changes in the present economic, political and social situation of women must become an integral part of efforts to transform the structures and attitudes that hinder the genuine satisfaction of their needs,

Recognizing that international co-operation based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations should be developed and strengthened in order to find solutions to world problems and to build an international community based on equity and justice,

Recalling that in subscribing to the Charter, the peoples of the United Nations undertook specific commitments: "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ..., to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom",

Taking note of the fact that since the creation of the United Nations very important instruments have been adopted, among which the following constitute landmarks: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, and the Declaration and Programme of Action for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order based on the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States,

Taking into account that the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women considers that: "discrimination against women is incompatible with human dignity and with the welfare of the family and of society, prevents their participation, on equal terms with men, in the political, social, economic and cultural life of their countries and is an obstacle to the full development of the potentialities of women in the service of their countries and of humanity",

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