Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2001, para. 6b

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[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:] 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;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2001
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2001), A/RES/56/129, OP 6b.
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OP
Paragraph number
6b