A/HRC/RES/32/4 eliminate legal, administrative, financial and social barriers that hinder women’s right to the full enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, particularly when designing policy measures, programmes and resource allocations; 5. Also calls upon States to ensure women’s equal right to the full enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and to promote the integration of the distinct needs of each phase of their life cycle through their differential health treatment; 6. Urges States to take steps to ensure that laws, policies and practices respect women’s equal right to decide autonomously in matters regarding their own lives and health, including their bodies, by repealing discriminatory laws relating to third-party authorization for health information and services, and combating gender stereotypes and behaviours that discriminate against them; 7. Calls upon States to promote a human rights-based approach to women’s health, and to foster a functioning health system, with adequate supplies, equipment, trained personnel and infrastructure, and an efficient system of communication, referral and transport to support women’s right to the full enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; 8. Recognizes the need to pay specific attention and to take differentiated measures, including special protection and support services, when addressing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against women and girls; 9. Calls upon States to monitor and prevent unlawful forced institutionalization and overmedication, and to ensure non-discrimination in relation to women’s mental health; 10. Urges States to adopt effective measures and to enact laws and policies to prevent and eliminate harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage or female genital mutilation and cutting; 11. Also urges States to ensure the promotion and protection of the human rights of all women and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, including through the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks, and to strengthen health systems that make quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care services, commodities, information and education universally accessible and available, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, which will reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery, and safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law, and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers, while recognizing that human rights include the right to have control over and to decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence; 12. Further urges States to ensure equal access to and equal treatment of women and men in education and health care, and to enhance women’s sexual and reproductive health as well as education, including by, inter alia, training health providers and other health-care workers on gender equality and non-discrimination, respect for women’s rights and dignity, in lifesaving obstetric care and when giving birth, especially midwives and auxiliary nurses, ensuring the affordability of medicines and treatments, avoiding the overmedicalization of women’s health, acknowledging alternative medicine, abolishing discriminatory practices that hinder women’s access to health services, and providing age- 3