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a)
introduce the gender perspective in the national development
planning procedures;
b)
ensure participation of women at all levels in the
conceptualisation, decision-making, implementation and
evaluation of development policies and programmes;
promote women’s access to and control over productive
resources such as land and guarantee their right to property;
c)
d)
promote
women’s access to credit, training, skills
development and extension services at rural and urban
levels in order to provide women with a higher quality of life
and reduce the level of poverty among women;
e)
take into account indicators of human development
specifically relating to women in the elaboration of
development policies and programmes; and
f)
ensure that the negative effects of globalisation and any
adverse effects of the implementation of trade and economic
policies and programmes are reduced to the minimum for
women.
Article 20
Widows' Rights
States Parties shall take appropriate legal measures to ensure that
widows enjoy all human rights through the implementation of the
following provisions:
a)
that widows are not
degrading treatment;
subjected to inhuman, humiliating or
b)
that a widow shall automatically become the guardian and
custodian of her children, after the death of her husband,
unless this is contrary to the interests and the welfare of the
children;