Article 14 Rural Women

Chapter 12 Rural women

ARTICLE 14 Rural Women

Rural, indigenous and migrant women

12.3 Rural women and social security

12.5 Rural women and organizational structures

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Rural women and access to adequate health services

Rural women account for two thirds of all recipients of microcredits.

12.1 Rural women and participation in decision making

Rural women do not therefore have the privilege of using this source of energy.

Two thirds of microcredit beneficiaries in Kazakhstan were rural women.

The representation of rural women in government is limited.

However rural women are the main beneficiaries of the Zakat fund.

Many women (heads of households, rural teachers and physicians) receive plots.

Women play a key role in Guinea's food security.

In many countries, rural women were an important factor in agricultural production.

However, rural women are at the lowest level of the digital gender divide.

There is no bar on rural women in forming cooperatives.

According to the report, needy rural women qualified for a State pension.

Rural women are also virtually absent from decision making structures.

Rural women have access equal to that of men to land resources and credits.

In regard to rural women, a member asked whether women were aware of their rights.

12. Rural women in Haiti were the basis of the Haitian family and social structure.

From 2001 through 2003, some 48,300 microcredits totalling 6.7 billion tenge were issued, and two thirds of them were received by rural women for the creation and expansion of their own businesses.

Rural Credit

J. Agricultural schools

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Rural women, as a rule, are poorly informed of their economic rights, particularly the right to the use of land.

12.8 Housing, sanitation, electricity, drinking water, transport and communications

Besides membership in rural women's organisations, rural women also belong to other national women's organisations.

Rural women have the right to free emergency medical services and care, including information and counselling.

(a) Rural areas

Rural women in developing countries needed to participate in the decision making process for sustainable development.

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(b) Rural women have equal access to medical care, including family planning information, counselling and services.

Women in rural areas take part in almost all stages of agricultural production since they constitute 70 80 of the workforce.

Several times, rural women have not had access to health care services, nor counseling on long distance problems that separate them from health care centers.

As well as carrying out domestic tasks, rural women take part in all socio economic activities, including agriculture, stock raising, handicrafts and petty trade.

The observation was made that rural women are more capable of incorporating their work outside the home with their domestic responsibilities.

Colombia, for example, developed a plan to address the political, socio economic and cultural obstacles rural women face.

472. Members asked under which exceptional conditions rural women could own land and obtain access to credit.

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Countryside wells are in poor shape.

Please also indicate how rural women participated in the design of the Strategy and how they are involved in its implementation.