Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Endorses the comprehensive reporting system to monitor, review and appraise the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies, as outlined in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/22; emphasizes the importance of the total integration of women in the development process; emphasizes also the need to give urgent attention to redressing socio-economic inequities at the national and international levels as a necessary step towards the full realization of the goals and objectives of the Forward-looking Strategies; urges that particular attention be given by the UN and Governments to the situation of disabled women; endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/29, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to convene a seminar on women and rural development; endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/21, in which the Council recommended that in updating the "World Survey on the Role of Women in Development", particular emphasis should be given to those factors which contributed to the deteriorating status of women in developing countries; requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide for the existing weekly radio programmes on women in the regular budget of the UN.

Adopted without vote, 75th meeting

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Adopted at the 75th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 177-179. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).