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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/135
7 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 109
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/598 and Corr.1 and 2)]
54/135. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/93 of 12 December 1997,
Recalling also the importance attached to the problems of rural women by the Nairobi Forward-looking
Strategies for the Advancement of Women,1 the Beijing Declaration2 and the Platform for Action3 adopted
by the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women,4
Noting that some effects of the evolving globalization process may deepen the socio-economic
marginalization of rural women,
1
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.
2
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, annex I.
3
Ibid., annex II.
4
Resolution 34/180, annex.
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