Marina Durano, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Presented at a Side-Event of the 56th Committee on the Status of Women. 2 March 2012, New York, USA. 

Among the long-standing questions we are facing is how best to fully implement commitments in Article 14 of the CEDAW. CEDAW’s Article 14 placed special emphasis on rural women’s lives. The recommendations in Article 14 may be grouped into three broad areas, which are: participation and organizing, social security and services, and access to finance and assets. This requires from governments the formulation of rural development strategies and agricultural policies take into provisions in Article 14. What we are doing today is discussing this issue at a time when the UNFPA reports1 that more than half of the world’s population is now living in urban areas. This population shift would seem to make the concerns of the rural poor less significant, especially if the concerns of the urban poor captures the attention of policy makers.

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