A/RES/64/140
Noting the attention paid to the improvement of the situation of indigenous
women in rural areas in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 8
7F
Recognizing the work of relevant United Nations agencies, funds and
programmes, especially the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, in promoting education for all, giving particular attention to girls and
women in rural areas,
Welcoming the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on
Financing for Development, 9 as well as the Johannesburg Declaration on
Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 10 in which
Governments were called upon to mainstream the gender perspective into
development at all levels and in all sectors, and recalling the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, held in Doha from 29 November to
2 December 2008,
8F
9F
Welcoming also 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, 11 which stressed the need for rural development to become an integral part of
national and international development policies and of 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,
10F
Recalling the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva in
2003 and Tunis in 2005, as well as the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society,
adopted by the World Summit in 2005, 12 which reaffirmed the commitment to
building capacity in information and communications technology for all and
confidence in the use of information and communications technology by all,
including women, indigenous peoples and remote and rural communities,
1F
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,
Reiterating that eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing the
world today, and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in
particular for developing countries, while recognizing that rural areas of developing
countries continue to be home to the vast majority of the world’s poor people,
Recognizing the contributions of older rural women to the family and the
community, especially in cases where they are left behind by migrating adults or as
a result of other socio-economic factors to assume childcare, household and
agricultural responsibility,
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8
Resolution 61/295, annex.
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.
10
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, and resolution 2, annex.
11
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/58/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, para. 35.
12
See A/60/687, chap. I, sect. B.
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