6. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations and women’s groups, to provide and make widely available support and programmes for gender-sensitive legal literacy services, taking into account models developed by non-governmental organizations; 7. Urges Governments to ensure that all persons responsible for enforcing and interpreting the law are aware of, and act in accordance with, the rights set out in international instruments, constitutions and the law as they pertain to women and to promote gender sensitivity in all levels of legal and administrative systems; 8. Requests the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development to consider including in its agenda the consideration of education for all, the eradication of illiteracy, and the promotion of legal literacy, particularly among women; 9. Urges the World Conference on Human Rights, to be held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, to address itself to the issue of legal literacy and services and to include recommendations on legal literacy and services in any plan of action or declaration that it may adopt. Resolution 37/6. Women and development* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling General Assembly resolution 47/174 of 22 December 1992, Economic and Social Council resolutions 1990/15 of 24 May 1990 and 1992/53 of 31 July 1992 and Commission resolutions 34/3 of 8 March 1990, 35/7 of 8 March 1991 and 36/5 of 20 March 1992, Reaffirming the principles contained in the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, Convinced that the effective mobilization of women is an essential element to achieving the objectives of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 1/ and the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade, 41/ Aware that the slow progress in the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies as related to development necessitates urgent action to be taken by all the parties concerned, Aware also of the need to recognize the importance of gender in all areas of social, economic and political life in order to bridge the gap between the roles of men and women in development and to train planners, policy makers, decision makers and relevant staff in gender analysis, Reaffirming that the full integration of women in development, both as agents and beneficiaries, should concern all sectors of society, * For the discussion, see chap. IV. 41/ General Assembly resolution 45/199, annex. -39-

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