A/RES/56/129
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; 7
2.
Welcomes the holding, from 4 to 8 June 2001 at Ulaanbaatar, of the
expert group meeting on the situation of rural women within the context of
globalization;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a user-friendly publication
based, inter alia, on case studies presented at the expert group meeting referred to in
paragraph 2 above in order to raise awareness of the situation of rural women in the
context of globalization;
4.
Also requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States
on the desirability of convening a high-level policy consultation at the governmental
level with a view to setting priorities and developing critical strategies that would
meet the manifold challenges faced by rural women;
5.
Welcomes the convening of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development in South Africa in September 2002, including the review of chapter 24
of Agenda 21, 8 entitled “Global action for women towards sustainable and equitable
development”, entailing, inter alia, measures to improve the situation of women in
rural areas, and the World Food Summit: five years later, to be held in Italy in June
2002, and urges Governments to integrate a gender perspective, with attention to the
improvement of the situation of women in rural areas, in the respective processes
and outcome documents;
6.
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 five-year reviews, and to
attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women in
their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:
(a) Creating an enabling environment for improving the situation of rural
women, including integrating a gender perspective in macroeconomic policies and
developing appropriate social support systems;
(b) Designing and revising laws to ensure that, where private ownership of
land and property exists, rural women are accorded full and equal rights to own land
and other property, including through the right to inheritance, and undertaking
administrative reforms and other necessary measures to give women the same right
as men to credit, capital, appropriate technologies and access to markets and
information;
(c) Taking steps towards ensuring that women’s unpaid work and
contributions to on-farm and off-farm production, including income generated in the
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A/56/268.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the
Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
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