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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/50/165
16 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 107
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/50/630 and Corr.1)]
50/165.
Improvement of the situation of women in
rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 34/14 of 9 November 1979, in which it endorsed
the Declaration of Principles and the Programme of Action as adopted by the
World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, 1/ and its
resolutions 44/78 of 8 December 1989 and 48/109 of 20 December 1993,
Recalling also the importance attached to the problems of rural women by
the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 2/ and
by the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth
World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 3/
Recalling further its resolution 47/174 of 22 December 1992, in which it
welcomed the adoption of the Geneva Declaration for Rural Women by the Summit
on the Economic Advancement of Rural Women, held at Geneva in February
1992, 4/ and urged all States to work for the achievement of the goals
endorsed in the Declaration,
1/
See Report of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural
Development, Rome, 12-20 July 1979 (WCARRD/REP), transmitted to the General
Assembly by a note by the Secretary-General (A/34/485).
2/
Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the
Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development
and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No.
E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect. A.
3/
A/CONF.177/20, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
4/
A/47/308-E/1992/97, annex.
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