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(e) Designing and revising laws to ensure that women have equal access to and control over land,
unmediated by male relatives, in order to end land rights discrimination; according women secure use rights
and full representation in the decision-making bodies that allocate land and other forms of property, credit,
information and new technologies; in the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World
Conference on Women,4 according women full and equal rights to own land and other property, inter alia,
through inheritance; acknowledging, in the context of land reform programmes, the equality of women's rights
to land and taking other measures to increase land availability to poor women and men;
(f) Investing in the human resources of rural women, particularly through health and literacy
programmes and social support measures;
(g) Promoting and strengthening micro-financing policies and programmes, cooperatives and other
employment opportunities;
(h) Ensuring that women's unpaid work and contributions to on-farm and off-farm production, including
income generated in the informal sector, are visible and recorded in economic surveys and statistics at the
national level;
3. Requests the international community and relevant United Nations organizations and bodies to
promote further the realization of the programmes and projects aimed at the improvement of the situation of
rural women within the overall framework of integrated follow-up to recent global conferences;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with Member States and relevant United
Nations organizations, a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit it, through the
Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session.
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997