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production and play a vital role in providing food security threatened by
climate change, including land tenure and other property rights, by enhancing
their access to and control of resources;
Calls upon Governments, United Nations programmes, funds and
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agencies and other relevant bodies involved in implementing climate change
policies to take the measures necessary to enable women to participate fully in
all levels of decision-making relevant to climate change, and to facilitate and
provide training on the protection, rights and the particular needs of women
and girls and to promote gender balance and gender sensitivity among their
representatives and staff;
Encourages Governments, international financial facilities and
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institutions, the private sector and civil society, as appropriate, to promote the
participation of women and ensure that a gender perspective is incorporated
into the design, approval, execution and monitoring of climate change-related
projects;
Encourages Governments to strengthen international cooperation in
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such areas as training, capacity-building and technology transfer in order to
address the challenges faced by women and girls in the context of climate
change;
10. Invites social, economic, political and scientific institutions to take
into account the impact of environmental degradation and climate change on
women, and, in this regard, to develop database tools, databases and statistics,
containing reliable, comparable and relevant data, disaggregated by sex and
age, as well as gender-sensitive methodologies and policy analyses;
11. Encourages Governments to integrate a gender component into
their periodic reporting as States Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change;
12. Calls upon Governments, including States Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to continue to incorporate
a gender perspective and make efforts to ensure the effective participation of
women in the ongoing climate change talks leading to the seventeenth
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, to be held in Durban, South Africa, in 2011.
Resolution 55/2
Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 18 the
outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly,4 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development, 19 the Declaration of Commitment on
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* For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 92-96.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
19 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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