This document presents Resolution 52-93 on the improvement of the status of women in rural areas, adopted by the General Assembly at the Fifty-Second Session. The General Assembly essentially invites member states to take account of the problems of rural women in their national development policies and programs; To raise rural women's awareness of their rights and their role in political and socio-economic development and to increase the participation of rural women in the decision-making process, to revise legislative texts so as to ensure equal access to Land and land control in order to end discrimination in land rights, grant non-precarious tenure rights to women and grant them unrestricted equal access to land and other forms of land Ownership, inter alia by inheritance, to invest in the development of the human resources of rural women, in particular through health, literacy and social protection programs; To promote and strengthen microfinance policies and programs, cooperatives and other sources of employment; And to include in national economic studies and statistics women's unpaid work and their contribution to agricultural and non-agricultural production, including income derived from the informal sector;

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