This document presents Resolution 64-140 on the improvement of the status of women in rural areas, adopted by the General Assembly at the Sixty-Fourth Session. The General Assembly invites the Member States to create an environment conducive to the improvement of the situation of rural women and to ensure that their needs, priorities and contributions are systematically taken into account, in particular through increased cooperation and Actively involved in gender equality, and to ensure their full participation in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of macroeconomic policies; Promote the political and socio-economic empowerment of rural women; Gender mainstreaming in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programs, including fiscal policies, with increased attention to the needs of rural women, Integrating new opportunities Employment opportunities for rural women in all international and national strategies for development and poverty eradication; Launch programs to enable rural women and men to reconcile their work and family responsibilities and encourage men to share household chores and the education of children on an equal footing with women; Address the lack of recent, reliable and gender-disaggregated data, and take women's unpaid work into account in official statistics; Develop laws, revise existing ones and apply them to ensure that rural women are recognized for the full and equal rights of ownership and tenure, including through succession.

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