E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 24. Expresses its concern that women entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages of the businesses they found, may find it difficult to sustain their businesses because of, inter alia, a lack of access to markets, and encourages all relevant economic stakeholders to strengthen the competitiveness of women, to ensure their access to national and international markets, with emphasis on low-income women, and to include women entrepreneurs in their supply chains, as a means of channelling continued income to businesses established and operated by women; 25. Calls upon sending, transit and receiving States to incorporate gender perspectives in all policies and programmes on migration, promote the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by women migrants, combat discrimination, all forms of exploitation, ill-treatment, unsafe working conditions and violence, including sexual violence and trafficking in women and girls, and facilitate family reunification in an expeditious and effective manner, with due regard to applicable laws, as such reunification has a positive effect on the integration of migrants; 26. Urges Governments and/or, as appropriate, the relevant funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions, civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to ensure that adequate resources are allocated for activities targeting persistent serious obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in situations of armed conflict; 27. Invites States and, as appropriate, international organizations, in partnership with cooperatives and cooperative organizations, inter alia, to promote the growth of agricultural cooperatives through women’s access to finance, land and property, adoption of sustainable production techniques, investments in rural infrastructure and irrigation, strengthened marketing mechanisms and support for the participation of women in economic activities; 28. Recognizes that global advances in information and communication technologies have created significant potential for facilitating women’s economic empowerment and that realizing this potential requires efforts to improve development of, and equal access to, technologies that facilitate educational and occupational access and that encourage, support and enhance women’s economic empowerment; 29. Calls upon States to develop and promote, with the support of, as appropriate, relevant United Nations entities, academic institutions, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and other relevant actors, the production and use of sex and age-disaggregated statistics and academic research on the economic situation of women, including in the area of employment, in order to effectively inform national policies; 30. Reaffirms that the international community, while strengthening international cooperation, should emphasize the importance of an open, rule-based, equitable, secure, non-discriminatory, transparent and predictable multilateral trading system that will also ensure the equal access of women to market and technologies and resources at both the national and international levels; 31. Urges developed countries that have not yet done so, in accordance with their commitments, to make concrete efforts towards meeting the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for official development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their gross national product for official 24 10-30576