A/RES/58/206
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Further recognizes the need to strengthen the capacity of Governments to
incorporate a gender perspective in policies and decision-making, and encourages
all Governments, international organizations, including the United Nations system,
and other relevant stakeholders to assist and support developing countries in
integrating a gender perspective in all aspects of policy-making, including through
the provision of technical assistance and financial resources;
Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for the
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promotion of sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities that will generate
income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty;
10. Urges all Governments to ensure women’s equal rights with men and
their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and
economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women
and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition
of women from the informal to the formal sector;
11. Encourages Governments, the private sector, non-governmental
organizations and other actors of civil society to promote and protect the rights of
women workers, to take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as
stereotypical attitudes to gender equality at work and to initiate positive steps to
promote equal pay for equal work or work of equal value;
12. Urges all Governments to take all appropriate measures to eliminate
discrimination against women with regard to their access to bank loans, mortgages
and other forms of financial credit, giving special attention to poor, uneducated
women, and to support women’s access to legal assistance;
13. Calls upon Governments and entrepreneurial associations to facilitate the
access of women, including young women and women entrepreneurs, to education
and training in business, administration, and information and communication
technologies;
14. Recognizes the role of microfinance, including microcredit, in the
eradication of poverty, the empowerment of women and the generation of
employment, notes in this regard the importance of sound national financial
systems, and encourages the strengthening of existing and emerging microcredit
institutions and their capacities, including through the support of international
financial institutions;
15. Stresses the need for assistance to enable women in developing countries,
particularly grass-roots women’s groups, to have full access to and use of new
technologies, including information technologies, for their empowerment;
16. Urges States to design and revise laws that ensure that women are
accorded full and equal rights to own land and other property, including through
inheritance, and to undertake administrative reforms and other necessary measures
to give women the same right as men to credit, capital and appropriate technologies
and access to markets and information;
17. Calls upon Governments to encourage the financial sector to mainstream
a gender perspective in its policies and programmes, in particular by:
(a) Exploring viable options with respect to reaching people living in
poverty, in particular women, including through international public and/or private
funds;
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