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appropriate, sexual health information, education and counselling, based on scientific
evidence and human rights, for women, girls, men and boys;
13.
Urges States to take all appropriate measures to ensure equal access of
women with disabilities to health services that are gender sensitive, including health-related
rehabilitation;
14.
Also urges States to adopt a holistic approach to maternal health, one of the
elements of the full spectrum of women’s health, by reducing maternal mortality and
morbidity by promoting access to family planning and proper prenatal care, skilled
attendance at birth, postnatal care and methods of prevention, including affordable
treatment and support services for sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV/AIDS, free
of stigma and discrimination;
15.
Underlines the need to take measures to exercise due diligence and
accountability to ensure that health services and medications are provided in a genderresponsive and non-discriminatory way;
16.
Stresses the need to accelerate efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, violence on their way to or
at school, in other public spaces and in health facilities;
17.
Recommends that States collect data, prepare statistics disaggregated by age,
disability and sex, and conduct multidisciplinary research reflecting specific issues related
to women’s health and safety;
18.
Reaffirms the importance of significantly increased investment to close
resource gaps for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
including through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources;
19.
Recognizes that civil society organizations, including independent women’s
organizations and human rights defenders, do important work in promoting full equality in
all aspects of life, including women’s health, and in eliminating violence against women
and girls, and that they therefore require support for their sustainability, safety and growth;
20.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on the issue of
discrimination against women in law and in practice for a period of three years, on the same
terms as provided for by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 23/7 of 13 June 2013;
21.
Calls upon all States to cooperate with and assist the Working Group in its
tasks, to supply all necessary available information requested by it and to give serious
consideration to responding favourably to its requests to visit their country to enable it to
fulfil its mandate effectively;
22.
Invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, the treaty
bodies, within their respective mandates, and civil society actors, including nongovernmental organizations, as well as the private sector, to cooperate fully with the
Working Group in the fulfilment of its mandate, and requests the Working Group to
continue to engage with the Commission on the Status of Women, including by
participating in its work and reporting, on request;
23.
Decides to continue its consideration of this issue in conformity with its
annual programme of work.
42nd meeting
30 June 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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