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

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 92aImplementation 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 topics

Agrarian Reform Agricultural Cooperatives Conferences Development Strategies Education Political Participation Popular Participation Programme Evaluation Programmes of Action Report Preparation Rural Women Women in Development Women's Advancement Women's Status

What does this mandate say?

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;

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;

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:

Participation of rural women in socio-economic and political life;

Questions of the exercise by rural women of their rights;

Role of agricultural co-operatives in the improvement of the situation of women;

Agrarian reform, particularly in favour of rural women, with a view to improving their situation;

Elimination of illiteracy among rural women and upgrading of their educational level;

(/) Assistance to rural women in the improvement of their situation;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit the report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session through the Economic and Social Council.

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