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: -76-

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