of the Prosecutor which would deal mainly with war-related violence against
women, including rape and sexual assault, was recommended.
34. The gravity of the problems faced by female migrant workers, including
violence and physical abuse, was addressed by one representative. She noted the
increasing number of women migrating from developing to industrialized countries
and described their vulnerability and the difficulties they faced in the
receiving countries, such as the low level of accessible jobs and lack of
knowledge of workers’ protection mechanisms. She stated that the problem
required close cooperation between the countries of emigration and the receiving
States as well as continued attention by the United Nations system and other
concerned bodies. She recalled the various relevant resolutions adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-seventh session and by the
General Assembly at its forty-seventh session, by which the Secretary-General
was requested to prepare a report on the matter for submission to the Commission
at its thirty-eighth session.
ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION
Women and development
35. At the 14th meeting, on 16 March 1994, the representative of Algeria, on
behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group
of 77 and China, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.11) entitled
"Women and development" and orally revised it as follows:
(a) In the ninth preambular paragraph, the words "allow women to achieve
full integration in development" were replaced by the words "allow women to be
full and equal participants in shaping the development process";
(b) In operative paragraph 5, the words "income generation" were replaced
by the word "entrepreneurship" and the words "adequate resources to women and
development programmes" were replaced by the words "adequate resources for use
by women and gender-sensitive development programmes".
36.
At the same meeting, the observer for Liberia made a statement.
37. At the 17th meeting, on 18 March, the representative of the United States
of America proposed to amend the draft resolution as follows:
(a) In the last preambular paragraph, the words "adverse terms of trade
and the growing foreign debt on developing countries" would be replaced by the
words "changing terms of trade and the foreign debt of developing countries" and
the words "continues to have negative effects on efforts for the full
integration of women in development" would be replaced by the words "may have
negative effects on vulnerable members of society";
(b) In operative paragraph 9, the words "to provide adequate and timely
support" would be replaced by the words "to continue to provide support", the
word "negative" would be deleted and the word "adverse" would be replaced by the
word "changing".
38. At the same meeting, the representative of Algeria moved that no action be
taken on the proposed amendments. The motion was carried by a roll-call vote of
32 to 4, with 6 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
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