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(j) Addressing the lack of timely, reliable and sex-disaggregated data,
including by intensifying efforts to include women’s unpaid work in official
statistics, and developing a systematic and comparative research base on rural
women that will inform policy and programme decisions;
(k) Designing and revising laws to ensure that, where private ownership of
land and property exists, rural women are accorded full and equal rights to own land
and other property, including through the right to inheritance, and undertaking
administrative reforms and other necessary measures to give women the same right
as men to credit, capital, appropriate technologies and access to markets and
information;
(l) Promoting programmes to enable rural women and men to reconcile their
work and family responsibilities and to encourage men to share equally with women
household and childcare responsibilities;
(m) Mobilizing resources, including at the national level and through official
development assistance, for increasing women’s access to existing savings and
credit schemes, as well as targeted programmes that provide women with capital,
knowledge and tools that enhance their economic capacities;
(n) Supporting a gender-sensitive education system that considers rural
women’s specific needs in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and discriminatory
tendencies affecting them;
Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to pay due
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attention to the situation of rural women in the consideration of its priority themes;
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Invites the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations
system, in particular those dealing with issues of development, to address and
support the empowerment of rural women and their specific needs in their
programmes and strategies, including in the context of globalization;
Stresses the need to identify the best practices for ensuring that rural
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women have access to and full participation in the area of information and
communication technologies, and invites the World Summit on the Information
Society, at its second phase in Tunis, to take into consideration, while addressing
gender issues, the priorities and needs of rural women and girls as active users of
information and ensure their participation in developing and implementing global
information and communication technology strategies;
Invites Member States, the United Nations and the relevant organizations
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of its system to ensure that the needs of rural women are mainstreamed into the
integrated process of follow-up to the major summits and conferences in the
economic and social fields, in particular the Millennium Summit, the World Summit
on Sustainable Development, the International Conference on Financing for
Development, the 2005 review of the progress achieved in implementing all the
commitments made in the Beijing Platform for Action3 and the outcome documents
of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000:
gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,4 and the 2005
World Summit;
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Invites Member States to take into consideration the concluding
comments and recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women concerning their reports to the Committee when
formulating policies and designing programmes focused on the improvement of the
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