A/RES/66/129 7. Invites Governments to promote the economic empowerment of rural women, to adopt gender-responsive rural development strategies, including budget framework and relevant assessment measures, and to ensure that the needs and priorities of rural women and girls are systematically addressed and that they can effectively contribute to poverty alleviation, hunger eradication and food and nutritional security; Encourages Governments and international organizations to integrate the 8. perspective of women in rural areas, including indigenous women, into the preparations for and outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, with a view to accelerating progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural areas; Invites Governments, relevant international organizations and the 9. specialized agencies to continue to observe the International Day of Rural Women annually, on 15 October, as proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 62/136; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 89th plenary meeting 19 December 2011 5