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Article: Countries urged to do more to improve plight of rural women.
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- April 25, 2007
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Countries urged to do more to improve plight of rural women
Durban, Apr 25 (PTI) Delegates at the 4th World Congress of Rural Women here in South Africa have urged countries to do more to improve the lives of rural women, who they say are increasingly marginalised in a globalised world.
The resolutions adopted today at the end of the three-day Congress called for protection of women farmers from competition and legal enforcement of women's rights, among others.
"We therefore call upon our respective national governments, international and inter-governmental organisations, civil society and the corporate sector to take collective responsibility ...