Women and Development

Calls upon the United Nations system to provide increased assistance to those programmes, projects and activities which will encourage and promote the further integration of women into national, regional and interregional economic development activities;

Invites the United Nations system to lend all necessary co-operation for the preparation and conduct of the Conference of the International Women's Year;

Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Conference of the International Women's Year· information on the extent to which women participate in programmes sponsored by the United Nations system of organizations;

Invites Governments which have not already done so to include in their national development programmes those concepts contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women which bear on the full integration of women in the development process;

Invites Governments and specialized agencies and all other organs and agencies within the United Nations system to co-operate in implementing the objectives set by the present resolution.