A/HRC/38/L.1/Rev.1 Recognizing the major contributions made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders, trade unions and girls’ and youth-led organizations, to promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls and the fulfilment of their right to decent work and education, and recognizing also the importance of having an open, inclusive and transparent engagement with civil society in the implementation of measures promoting substantive equality in the empowerment of women and girls, 1. Calls upon States: (a) To ratify or accede to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and to consider ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocol to the Convention as a matter of particular priority; (b) To limit the extent of any reservations, and to formulate them as precisely and narrowly as possible to ensure that no reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention; (c) To implement the Convention through appropriate legislation, regulation, policies and programmes; (d) To cooperate fully with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other human rights treaty bodies, and to implement its recommendations, as appropriate; 2. Takes note of the work undertaken by the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, including its report,2 and calls upon States to take steps to promote reforms as appropriate and to implement legal frameworks and policies directed to achieving gender equality and the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls, taking into consideration the good practices identified therein and the recommendations of the Working Group, and also those made by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, other States in the context of the universal periodic review and other relevant human rights mechanisms, with a view to ensuring the realization of human rights of all women and girls; 3. Calls upon States: (a) To repeal all laws that exclusively or disproportionately criminalize the actions or behaviour of women and girls, and laws and policies that discriminate against them, based on any grounds, including any custom, tradition or cultural or religious interpretation contrary to the international obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls; (b) To ensure that their international obligations on gender equality and nondiscrimination are incorporated at all levels of legal frameworks, including in relation to women’s and girls’ access to justice, redress and effective remedies; (c) To consider reviewing all proposed and existing legislation in accordance with international human rights obligations and a gender-responsive perspective, involving, when necessary, independent experts, national human rights institutions, women human rights defenders, women’s and girls’ community-based organizations, feminist groups and youth-led organizations, and other relevant stakeholders; (d) To work towards establishing or strengthening inclusive and genderresponsive social protection systems, including floors, to ensure full access to nationally appropriate social protection for all without discrimination of any kind, and to take measures to progressively achieve higher levels of protection, including by facilitating the transition from informal to formal work; (e) To promote legislation, regulation, policies and programmes that facilitate all women’s economic empowerment, ensure equal pay for equal work or work of equal value 2 4 A/HRC/38/46.