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and prohibit all forms of discrimination, including in the workplace and in education, such
as discrimination against women and girls based on pregnancy, maternity, marital status,
age, race, sex or gender, as well as violence and harassment against them, including sexual
harassment and harassment in digital contexts and online spaces;
4.
Urges States:
(a)
To ensure women’s and girls’ equal enjoyment of economic, social, cultural,
civil and political rights through the prohibition of and appropriate action to eliminate all
forms of discrimination by all actors, State and non-State alike;
(b)
To remove barriers, whether political, legal, cultural, economic, institutional
or religious, preventing women’s full, equal and effective participation in all fields and in
leadership at all levels of decision-making in public and private sectors;
(c)
To modify social and cultural patterns of conduct with a view to preventing
and eliminating in the public and private spheres patriarchal and gender stereotypes,
negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours, and unequal power relations that view
women and girls as subordinate to men and boys and that underlie and perpetuate
discrimination and violence against women and girls;
(d)
To support gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, including within
families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, especially education and public
awareness-raising, including through the media and online, the incorporation of curricula
on all women’s rights into teacher training courses, including the prevention of sexual and
gender-based violence, and ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive
sexuality education;
(e)
To provide training on a rights-based gender analysis for duty holders in all
spheres and sectors and meaningful collaboration with civil society, including women’s and
community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’
and youth-led organizations;
(f)
To support tripartite collaboration among Governments, employers and
women workers and their organizations, including trade unions or other representative
organizations, to prevent and remove barriers to gender equality and the empowerment of
women in the workplace;
5.
Calls upon States to implement policies and actions directed:
(a)
To eradicate poverty and to combat the feminization of poverty, to ensure the
full and equal participation of women in the design and implementation of and follow-up to
poverty eradication and development policies and programmes, to promote employment
and decent work, and to promote the participation of women at all levels and sectors of the
economy;
(b)
To recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s and girls’ disproportionate
share of unpaid care and domestic work, including caring for children, family members
with disabilities and older family members, by promoting policies and initiatives that
support the reconciliation of work and family life and the equal sharing of responsibilities
between women and men, to take steps to implement family-oriented policies to achieve a
family-work balance and to facilitate the transition of women informal workers, including
those engaged in informal paid care and domestic work, to the formal economy, and to
extend rights to non-discrimination, paid parental leave and childcare provisions;
(c)
To enact legislation and undertake reforms as appropriate to realize the equal
rights of women and men, and, where applicable, girls and boys, to natural, economic and
productive resources, including access to, use of, and ownership of and control over land,
property and inheritance rights, including diverse types of land tenure, appropriate new
technology and financial services, such as credit, banking and finance, including but not
limited to microfinance, as well as equal access to justice and legal assistance in this regard,
and ensure women’s legal capacity and equal rights with men’s to conclude contracts, in
particular of groups of women who are subject to multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination;
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