A/HRC/38/L.1/Rev.1 (d) To promote substantive equality by adopting the measures necessary to prevent, diminish and eliminate patriarchal and gender stereotypes that cause or perpetuate substantive or de facto discrimination, including, where appropriate, the adoption of temporary special measures, including for gender-specific needs and equal enjoyment benefits; (e) To encourage and facilitate women’s entrepreneurship, including by improving access to financing and investment opportunities, tools of trade, business development and training, through, inter alia, the mobilization of adequate financial resources, capacity-building and the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, in order to increase the share of trade and procurement from women’s enterprises, including micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives and self-help groups in both the public and private sectors, and to promote girls’ and young women’s access to training for business development; (f) To prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and sexual harassment against women and girls in all settings, including public and private life, means of public transport, schools and workplaces, particularly workplaces that are largely male-dominated or where stereotyped roles prevail, by, inter alia, implementing effective violence-prevention and response activities, including by facilitating effective action after sexual harassment has been committed by holding perpetrators to account and providing victims with access to remedies and protection, engaging men and boys, educating children from a young age about the importance of treating all people with dignity and respect, and by designing educational programmes and training materials that support gender equality, human rights, respectful relationships and non-violent behaviour; (g) To ensure access to justice and accountability mechanisms for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aimed at preventing and eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, in all contexts, including by informing women and girls about their rights under relevant laws and by improving legal infrastructure and removing all barriers to access to legal counselling, assistance and remedies; (h) To ensure the equal enjoyment by women and girls of quality education, including at all levels human rights education and training, in a safe environment, leading to effective learning outcomes, thereby facilitating their access to information and communications technology and science, and technology, engineering and mathematics education in order to promote their empowerment and to allow them to develop the skills, information and knowledge necessary to support their labour market entry; 6. Encourages States to prioritize the allocation of funds, both internationally and domestically, to support women’s and girls’ full and equal enjoyment of all human rights, including by mainstreaming gender equality in the process of conceiving, planning, approving, executing, analysing and ordering budgets, to ensure that their legal and policy commitments bear results, and to implement active and sustained measures to promote good practices in the eradication of discrimination and the promotion of women’s and girls’ empowerment, including measures focused on attitudinal and behavioural change that cultivate an environment in which good practices in achieving gender equality in law and practice can thrive; 7. Urges States to promote, protect and fulfil sexual and reproductive health and rights, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and to respect, protect and fulfil the right of every individual to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on all matters relating to their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect the right to bodily autonomy and guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services, evidence-based information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth assistance and emergency 6

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