II. ITEM 10: CONSIDERATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT, DEMOCRACY AND THE UNIVERSAL ENJOYMENT OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, KEEPING IN VIEW THE INTERRELATIONSHIP AND INDIVISIBILITY OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS 3. Ensuring the promotion of development and equal enjoyment of universal human rights for women should be emphasized under item 10 of the provisional agenda for the World Conference on Human Rights. The role of women in sustainable development as adopted in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 40/ should be implemented. 4. Moreover, democracy implies that all women and men have the right and responsibility to participate equally in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life; unless women are able to participate on the same basis, democracy cannot be secured. 5. It is accordingly recommended to the World Conference that: (a) All necessary steps be taken to develop a political, economic, social and cultural environment conducive to the full integration of women in sustainable development; (b) The necessary steps be taken to increase cooperation between developing and developed countries in order to enhance the role of women in development, promote the full and equitable participation of women in partnership with men as active agents and beneficiaries in all development activities, particularly at all levels of decision-making; (c) Special attention should be given to the problems of women in situations of extreme poverty and of rural women, as concluded by the Summit on the Economic Advancement of Rural Women held at Geneva on 25 and 26 February 1992; (d) Efforts should be intensified to ensure the participation of women on an equal footing with men in all national and local government bodies and to achieve equity in the appointment, election and promotion of women to high posts in executive, legislative and judiciary branches of these bodies. III. ITEM 11: CONSIDERATION OF CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN AND NEW CHALLENGES TO THE FULL REALIZATION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND MEN, INCLUDING THOSE OF PERSONS BELONGING TO VULNERABLE GROUPS 6. More attention should be given to the problem of violence against women. In the draft declaration on the elimination of violence against women (E/CN.6/1993/12, annex, appendix I), it is affirmed that violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of human rights. 7. In addition, attention should be given to the contemporary trend of seeing the realization of human rights from a gender perspective. 40/ See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Decisions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8), resolution 1, annex I. -35-