Also affirms the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective means to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate sustainable development, as well as the importance of equal rights and opportunities for women and men, including property rights for women and their access to bank loans, mortgages and other forms of financial credit, taking into account the best practices of microcredit in different parts of the world;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Men
Women
Year
2001
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The right to development (2001), A/RES/56/150, OP 15.