Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 91 United Nations Decade for Women : Equality, Development and Peace, published in 1983.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1983–2014

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/68/139

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2014	A/RES/68/139	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas	2,380	70%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/129	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas	1,949	46%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/140	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas	2,265	86%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/136	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas	2,017	55%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/138	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas	1,574	67%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2005–2015

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2015	A/70/204	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/139
2013	A/68/179	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/129
2011	A/66/181	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/140
2009	A/64/190	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/62/136
2007	A/62/202	Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/60/138

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Rural Women Women Women's Status

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Calls upon Member States to take additional appropriate measures for further improving the economic and social conditions of women in rural areas;

Requests the Economic and Social Council, the Commission on the Status of Women, the regional commissions and other bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to devote greater attention to the problem of elevating the status of rural women;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, within the framework of the integrated reporting system on the status of women which the Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 1980/38 of 2 May 1980, decided to continue, a comprehensive report containing the observations and comments received from Governments on national experience relating to the improvement of the situation of women in rural areas, paying special attention to such aspects as social insurance, mother and child care, health facilities, training, education and employment opportunities;

Also requests the Secretary-General to consider holding, within the framework of the Programme of Action for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade for Women, as a matter of priority, an interregional seminar on national experience relating to the improvement of the situation of women in rural areas, with special emphasis on the problems of developing countries;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session, through the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council, the report requested in paragraph 3 above.

64 See Report of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. Rome. /2-20 Julv 1979 (WCARRD/REP).

65 Repon of the World Conference of the International Women·s Year, Mexico City, 19 June-2 July 1975 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.J), chap. II, sect. A.

06 Resolution 2626 (XXV).

61 Repon of the World Cor!ferenc,, of the United Nations Decade for "" Resolution _,5156, annex. Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Copenhagen. /4-30 July /980 69 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1982, Supple- (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.80.IV.J and corrigendum), chap.

ment No. 4 (E/J9g2/14)

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