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Welcoming also the agreed conclusions on women’s participation in and access
to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on
and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women, adopted
by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session, 9
Welcoming further the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference
on Financing for Development, 10 as well as the Johannesburg Declaration on
Sustainable Development 11 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 12 in which
Governments were called upon to mainstream the gender perspective into
development at all levels and in all sectors,
Welcoming the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the
substantive session of 2003 of the Economic and Social Council, adopted on 2 July
2003, 13 which stressed the need for rural development to become an integral part of
national and international development policies and of the activities and
programmes of the United Nations system, and called for an enhanced role for rural
women at all levels of rural development, including decision-making,
Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including
indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving
food security and eradicating rural poverty,
Noting that some effects of globalization may deepen the socio-economic
marginalization of rural women,
Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing
opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,
Mindful of the fact that the available data and existing tools of measurement
and analysis are insufficient for a full understanding of the gender implications of
the processes of globalization and rural change and their impact on rural women,
Recognizing the urgent need to take appropriate measures aimed at further
improving the situation of women in rural areas,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 14
2.
Invites Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the
United Nations and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to
implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to
United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach
greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women, including
indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development strategies by,
inter alia:
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9
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 7 (E/2003/27), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/44.
10
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
11
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
12
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
13
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/58/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, para. 35.
14
A/60/165.
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