Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and access to economic resources and to increase the access of women to credit by instituting innovative lending practices, including practices that integrate credit with services and training for women and that provide flexible credit facilities to women, in particular rural women, women in the informal sector, young women and women who lack access to traditional sources of collateral;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Gender
Person(s) affected
Men
Women
Youth
Year
1997
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Women in development (1997), A/RES/52/195, OP 8.