United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/146
Distr.: General
19 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 110
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)]
58/146. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/129 of 19 December 2001,
Recalling also the importance attached to the problems of rural women in the
Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, 1 the Beijing
Declaration 2 and Platform for Action 3 adopted by the Fourth World Conference on
Women, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the
twenty-first century”, 4 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 5
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6 in which
Member States resolved, inter alia, to promote gender equality and the
empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease
and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable,
Welcoming the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on
Financing for Development, 7 as well as the Johannesburg Declaration on
Sustainable Development 8 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 9 which called
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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 S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
5
Resolution 34/180, annex.
6
See resolution 55/2.
7
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.
8
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.
9
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
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