C. To strengthen factors that ensure women’s equitable access to education, health, employment and other means of maximizing the use of their capacities: 1. ... 2. ... D. To eliminate all kinds of violations of women’s human rights, and their causes, and to promote the role of women in achieving and maintaining peace: E. To promote actions to develop the mutual responsibility of women and men to achieve equality: V. VI. Financial arrangements Institutional arrangements for implementing and monitoring the Platform for Action [Including accountability] Resolution 37/8. Women in extreme poverty* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 39/ and the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 1/ for the period up to the year 2000, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/15 of 24 May 1990, Deeply concerned about the continued worsening of the economic situation in many developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, the deterioration of the external economic environment, the significant decline in living conditions and the continued increase of widespread poverty in a large number of those countries, Welcoming with satisfaction General Assembly resolution 47/92 of 16 December 1992, in which the Assembly decided to convene a World Summit for Social Development in Denmark early in 1995, Convinced that the eradication of poverty constitutes one of the main challenges for Governments, the international community and people themselves and that the situation of continuous and growing deprivation impedes the full enjoyment of fundamental human rights and hinders the achievement of sustainable development of society as a whole, Convinced of the essential role of international cooperation for development in efforts at all levels aimed at eradicating poverty, ________________________ * For the discussion, see chap. IV. -48-