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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/93
4 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 105
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/637)]
52/93.
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 34/14 of 9 November 1979, in which it endorsed the Declaration of Principles
and the Programme of Action as adopted by the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural
Development,1 and its resolutions 44/78 of 8 December 1989, 48/109 of 20 December 1993 and 50/165 of
22 December 1995,
Recalling also the importance attached to the problems of rural women by the Nairobi Forward-looking
Strategies for the Advancement of Women2 and by the Beijing Declaration3 and the Platform for Action4
adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,
Recalling further its resolution 47/174 of 22 December 1992, in which it welcomed the adoption of the
Geneva Declaration for Rural Women by the Summit on the Economic Advancement of Rural Women, held
1
See Report of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Rome, 12-20 July 1979
(WCARRD/REP), transmitted to the General Assembly by a note by the Secretary-General (A/34/485).
2
Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade
for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.85.IV.10), chap. I, sect. A.
3
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
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