Elderly women.

Recommends that concerted efforts be undertaken or strengthened in order to enable women to meet the challenges they face during their lives, particularly in their older years; recommends that information be provided to bodies responsible for the advancement of women to enable them to undertake a precise and in-depth analysis of the situation of elderly women and if necessary, develop new methods for data collection; requests the Secretary-General to organize a seminar to study questions arising from this analysis and to transmit the results of the study to the Commission on the Status of Women; encourages Governments to ensure that women increase their participation in social and economic progress throughout their lives; urges Governments, in co-operation with non-governmental organizations concerned, to strengthen activities for the benefit of elderly women, taking better account of their specific needs; requests the Commission on the Status of Women, in carrying out its review and appraisal of the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, to devote particular attention to the current and future situation of elderly women throughout the world.

Adopted without vote, 15th meeting

Adopted at the 15th plenary meeting, 24 May 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1989, 2-24 May 1989. - E/1989/INF/7. - 14 July 1989. - p. 68-69. - Issued in ESCOR, 1989, Suppl. no. 1.