A/C.3/33/WG.1/CRP.5/Add.9 
24 October 1978 

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH 

Thirty-third session 
Agenda item 75 

UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN: EQUALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE 

Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women 

Amendments submitted by the United Kingdom to Article 12 

"Each State party shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to guarantee them equality as participants in and beneficiaries of agricultural and rural development and in particular, on a basis of equality of men and women, the right: 

(a) To participate ______________ in the formation and implementation of development planning at all levels; 

(b) To receive adequate medical and health facilities, including family planning advice and services ________________; 

(c) To obtain all types of training and education, formal and non-formal, including functional literacy, as well as the benefit of all community and extension services; 

(d) To participate _______________ in all community activities including co-operatives; 

(e) To obtain _________________ access to credit and loans, marketing facilities, appropriate technology and equal treatment in land and agrarian reform as well as in land re-settlement schemes." 

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