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 105Advancement of women, published in 1998.

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14 versions · 1983–2014

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13 topics

Conferences Development Strategies Land Rights Political Leaders Popular Participation Rural Development Rural Women Women Women in Development Women Workers Women's Advancement Women's Rights Women's Status

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12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the improvement of the situation of women in rural areas;

Invites Member States, in their efforts to implement the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women, the World Food Summit and the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), and bearing in mind the Geneva Declaration for Rural Women, to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women, including older women, in their national development strategies, paying special attention to both their practical and strategic needs, by, inter alia:

Integrating the concerns of rural women into national development policies and programmes, in particular by placing a higher priority on budgetary allocation related to the interests of rural women;

Strengthening national machineries and establishing institutional linkages among governmental bodies in various sectors and non-governmental organizations concerned with rural development;

Increasing the awareness of rural women of their rights and their role in political and socio-economic development;

Increasing the participation of rural women in the decision-making process at the local and national levels;

Designing and revising laws to ensure that women have equal access to and control over land, unmediated by male relatives, in order to end land rights discrimination; according women secure use rights and full representation in the decision-making bodies that allocate land and other forms of property, credit, information and new technologies; in the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women,4 according women full and equal rights to own land and other property, inter alia, through inheritance; acknowledging, in the context of land reform programmes, the equality of women's rights to land and taking other measures to increase land availability to poor women and men;

Investing in the human resources of rural women, particularly through health and literacy programmes and social support measures;

Promoting and strengthening micro-financing policies and programmes, cooperatives and other employment opportunities;

Ensuring that women's unpaid work and contributions to on-farm and off-farm production, including income generated in the informal sector, are visible and recorded in economic surveys and statistics at the national level;

Requests the international community and relevant United Nations organizations and bodies to promote further the realization of the programmes and projects aimed at the improvement of the situation of rural women within the overall framework of integrated follow-up to recent global conferences;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with Member States and relevant United Nations organizations, a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit it, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session.

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