A/RES/32/142

Women's participation in the strengthening of international peace and security and in the struggle against colonialism, racism, racial discrimination, foreign aggression and occupation and all forms of foreign domination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 32
Date: 1977-12-16
Committee report: A/32/440
Meeting record: A/32/PV.105
Agenda item(s): United Nations Decade for Women : Equality, Development and Peace.

Tally

Yes 71No 19Abstain 46Did not vote 13

Roll call

'Did not vote' combines members that were absent and members present that did not participate; the source does not distinguish them.

Roll call – A/RES/32/142
Country	Position
Algeria	Yes
Angola	Yes
Bahrain	Yes
Bangladesh	Yes
Belarus (as “BYELORUSSIAN SSR”)	Yes
Benin	Yes
Bhutan	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Burundi	Yes
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Yes
Cameroon (as “UNITED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON”)	Yes
Chad	Yes
Colombia	Yes
Congo	Yes
Cuba	Yes
Cyprus	Yes
Czechoslovakia	Yes
Democratic Yemen	Yes
Djibouti	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
Egypt	Yes
Ethiopia	Yes
Gabon	Yes
German Democratic Republic	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	Yes
Guyana	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Hungary	Yes
India	Yes
Iraq	Yes
Jordan	Yes
Kenya	Yes
Kuwait	Yes
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Yes
Lebanon	Yes
Lesotho	Yes
Liberia	Yes
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	Yes
Madagascar	Yes
Mali	Yes
Malta	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Mongolia	Yes
Mozambique	Yes
Myanmar (as “BURMA”)	Yes
Nepal	Yes
Oman	Yes
Poland	Yes
Qatar	Yes
Romania	Yes
Rwanda	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	Yes
Saudi Arabia	Yes
Sierra Leone	Yes
Singapore	Yes
Somalia	Yes
Sri Lanka	Yes
Sudan	Yes
Syrian Arab Republic	Yes
Togo	Yes
Tunisia	Yes
Uganda	Yes
Ukraine (as “UKRAINIAN SSR”)	Yes
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (as “USSR”)	Yes
United Arab Emirates	Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	Yes
Viet Nam	Yes
Yemen	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Zambia	Yes
Australia	No
Belgium	No
Canada	No
Denmark	No
France	No
Germany, Federal Republic of	No
Honduras	No
Iceland	No
Ireland	No
Israel	No
Italy	No
Luxembourg	No
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	No
New Zealand	No
Norway	No
Paraguay	No
Sweden	No
United Kingdom	No
United States	No
Afghanistan	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Austria	Abstain
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Abstain
Barbados	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Central African Republic (as “CENTRAL AFRICAN EMPIRE”)	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Costa Rica	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire (as “IVORY COAST”)	Abstain
Democratic Republic of the Congo (as “ZAIRE”)	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
El Salvador	Abstain
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Abstain
Fiji	Abstain
Finland	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Greece	Abstain
Guatemala	Abstain
Indonesia	Abstain
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (as “IRAN”)	Abstain
Jamaica	Abstain
Japan	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Malaysia	Abstain
Maldives	Abstain
Mauritania	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Morocco	Abstain
Nicaragua	Abstain
Niger	Abstain
Nigeria	Abstain
Pakistan	Abstain
Panama	Abstain
Papua New Guinea	Abstain
Peru	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Portugal	Abstain
Senegal	Abstain
Spain	Abstain
Suriname	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	Abstain
Albania	Did not vote
Burkina Faso (as “UPPER VOLTA”)	Did not vote
Cambodia (as “DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA”)	Did not vote
China	Did not vote
Comoros	Did not vote
Equatorial Guinea	Did not vote
Gambia	Did not vote
Grenada	Did not vote
Guinea	Did not vote
Samoa	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
South Africa	Did not vote
Trinidad and Tobago	Did not vote

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Sources

Voting data: United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Voting Data (Version 7, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4055387, and General Assembly Voting Data (Version 6, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4060887. Vetoes: UN Peace & Security Data Hub, Security Council Data – Vetoes Since 1946 (DPPA-SCVETOES). © United Nations; used for non-commercial purposes with attribution.