the human rights of women for the Centre for Human Rights and the Division for
the Advancement of Women and to inform both the Commission on Human Rights and
the Commission on the Status of Women of these plans and to report on the
implementation of the resolution to both bodies at their 1996 sessions.
In resolution 39/6 (Traffic in women and girls), the Commission invites
Governments to combat trafficking in women and children through nationally and
internationally coordinated measures and to consider the development of standard
minimum rules for the humanitarian treatment of trafficked persons; encourages
the international community to gather and share information relative to all
aspects of trafficking in women and girl children; calls upon all Governments to
take appropriate measures to prevent the misuse and exploitation by traffickers
of such economic activities as the development of tourism and the export of
labour; encourages ratification or accession to the Convention for the
Suppression of Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of
Others; invites the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Ninth United
Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to
deal with the subject; requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the
Economic and Social Council at its 1995 session for inclusion in a report to the
General Assembly at its fiftieth session; and requests the Secretary-General to
focus the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on the problem of
trafficking in human persons, especially women and children, and to devote one
meeting of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly to the discussion of
this problem.
In resolution 39/7 (Violence against women migrant workers), the Commission
invites sending and receiving States to conduct regular consultations for the
purpose of identifying problem areas in promoting and protecting the rights of
women and addressing them; encourages Member States to ensure the protection of
the rights and fundamental freedoms of women migrant workers and to consider
signing and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and the Members of their
Families and to take a number of other measures; invites organizations of the
United Nations system and others to monitor the situation and recommends
specific action by a number of them; requests the Secretary-General to develop
concrete indicators of the situation, consider establishing an expert group on
the matter and submit a report on the subject to the Commission.
In resolution 39/8 (Integration of displaced rural women into development
processes), the Commission urges Governments to integrate women into the
formulation and implementation of rural development policies, plans and
processes, to apply a gender approach in rural development projects, pay special
attention to the situation of rural women who have been displaced and include
this in development programmes.
In resolution 39/9 (Women in agriculture and rural development), the
Commission urges Governments to support rural women’s full participation in the
economy and in the political system, including integrating gender issues in
mainstream research and policy initiatives using gender analysis, collecting and
disseminating information on the situation of rural women, enforcing existing
legislation to ensure that women fully enjoy their legal rights, revising
legislation where necessary, formulating policies to ensure income-earning
opportunities, developing grass-roots level credit programmes, creating and
strengthening local advisory training programmes and extension services,
providing low-cost primary health care, promoting equitable distribution of
income and affordable and sustainable pension and social security schemes for
rural people, empowering rural women through their organizations, applying
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