12. Requests Member States to make provision for specific training
programmes for women in rural and urban areas aimed at developing their
technical and management skills, and to give financial support, fellowships, or
both, for training women, particularly those from developing countries, in
science, technology, agriculture and management;
13. Calls upon Governments, donor countries and relevant international
organizations to take further coordinated measures to facilitate the access of
women, particularly poor rural and urban women, to basic education and health
and child-care facilities;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, in reporting on the implementation of
the present resolution in his biennial monitoring report on the implementation
of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, to
include policy and programme recommendations on the basis of gender analysis;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the issues of women
and development and of the integration of women in development programmes are an
integral part of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United
Nations Development Decade.
Resolution 38/6.
Gender equality in population programmes*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of
Women, 1/ which set equality, development and peace as the general objectives
and goals for promoting the advancement of women, the World Conference on
Education for All, 21/ the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, 22/ the World Summit for Children, 23/ the World Conference
on Human Rights, 24/ and looking forward to the International Conference on
Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the
Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace,
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 9/ adopted
by the World Conference on Human Rights, which reaffirms, on the basis of
equality between women and men, a woman’s right to accessible and adequate
health care and the widest range of family-planning services, as well as equal
access to education at all levels,
*
For the discussion, see chap. IV.
21/ Final Report of the World Conference on Education for All: Meeting
Basic Learning Needs, Jomtien, Thailand, 5-9 March 1990 (New York, Inter-Agency
Commission (UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank) for the World Conference on
Education for All, 1990).
22/ Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (vol. I,
vol. I/Corr.1, vol. II, vol. III and vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum).
23/
See A/45/625.
24/ Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,
14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Parts I and II)).
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