United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/66/129
Distr.: General
19 March 2012
Sixty-sixth session
Agenda item 28 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/455 and Corr.1)]
66/129. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 56/129 of 19 December 2001, 58/146 of 22 December
2003, 60/138 of 16 December 2005, 62/136 of 18 December 2007 and 64/140 of
18 December 2009,
Welcoming the decision of the Commission on the Status of Women to
consider the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger
eradication, development and current challenges as its priority theme at its
fifty-sixth session, in 2012,
Recognizing that rural women are critical agents in poverty reduction, that they
are crucial to the achievement of food and nutritional security in poor and
vulnerable households and to environmental sustainability and that, in other ways,
they are also critical to the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals,
and concerned that rural women continue to be economically and socially
disadvantaged because of their limited access to economic resources and
opportunities, their limited or lack of access to land, water and other resources, their
limited or lack of access to credit, extension services and agricultural inputs, their
exclusion from planning and decision-making and their disproportionate burden of
unpaid care work,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 1
Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the
2.
United Nations and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to
implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to
the relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and
to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women,
including indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development
strategies by, inter alia:
(a) Creating an enabling environment for improving the situation of rural
women and ensuring systematic attention to their needs, priorities and contributions,
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