E. Women and armed conflict 29. The focus under this critical area of concern should be on actions to be taken by the United Nations system consistent with the Charter of the United Nations in order to protect women who are victims or who are at risk of becoming victims, of armed conflict from violence and abuse. 30. Measures should be further elaborated to raise awareness of women’s rights in armed conflict, and should be applied, inter alia, in the training of police, military personnel, health workers, teachers and managers of camps for refugee/displaced persons. 31. Measures to promote the more active participation of women in conflict resolution need to be addressed as the equal access and full participation of women in power structures and their full involvement in all efforts for the prevention and resolution of conflicts are essential for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. However, the system-wide medium-term plan should not assume - as it now does - that there are major differences between women’s and men’s attitudes to peace, security and conflict resolution. F. Women and the economy 32. In relation to the care of children and dependants and family responsibilities, child care and dependant care need integral parts of the concept of gender equality and gender Convention No. 156 of the International Labour Organization promoted. the sharing of to be provided as analysis, and needs to be 33. In operational activities, there should be a greater commitment to the provision of care of children and dependants. 34. The work on indicators should be better coordinated. The World Bank should also be associated with the analysis of data on globalization and change in international work patterns. 35. In operational activities, there should be a clearer reference to United Nations system assistance to Governments in implementing policies to ensure women equal rights with men to economic resources; this should include access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and new technologies. 36. As regards work and employment, there should be a more comprehensive approach to methods of measuring and disseminating information on types, extent and distribution of unremunerated work, in keeping with the relevant paragraphs of the Platform for Action, particularly paragraph 165 (g). 37. As regards women in the rural sector, as reflected in paragraphs 137 and 138 of the system-wide medium-term plan, there should be more emphasis on the concepts contained in the Platform for Action, in particular paragraph 166 (c). 38. The collective capacity of the United Nations system to promote gender analysis and policy advice on the impact of global economic issues on women, particularly the effects of economic restructuring programmes and other macroeconomic policies, should be utilized to the full. -43-

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