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National Experience Relating to the Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas

A/RES/40/106View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 92a Implementation of the Programme of Action for the 2nd half of the United Nations Decade for Women, published in 1986.

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects
Agrarian ReformAgricultural CooperativesConferencesDevelopment StrategiesEducationPolitical ParticipationPopular ParticipationProgramme EvaluationProgrammes of ActionReport PreparationRural WomenWomen in DevelopmentWomen's AdvancementWomen's Status

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs
Calls upon Governments to elaborate and implement, as a part of national development strategies, special comprehensive programmes for improving the situation of women in rural areas and to establish monitoring and evaluating mechanisms, involving women themselves, for these programmes;
3
Requests the organizations and funds concerned within the United Nations system to pay greater attention to the needs of rural women and to assist Member States, especially the developing countries, in the implementation of their national policies and programmes aimed at the advancement of rural women;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with the Member States, a comprehensive report on the present status and perspectives for the improvement of the situation of rural women, paying special attention, inter alia, to:
a
Participation of rural women in socio-economic and political life;
b
Questions of the exercise by rural women of their rights;
c
Role of agricultural co-operatives in the improvement of the situation of women;
d
Agrarian reform, particularly in favour of rural women, with a view to improving their situation;
e
Elimination of illiteracy among rural women and upgrading of their educational level;
(/) Assistance to rural women in the improvement of their situation;
5
Also requests the Secretary-General to submit the report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session through the Economic and Social Council.
IOI See E/1985/45.
102 See A/40/239 and Add. I

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