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(vi) Incorporating effective approaches in laws, policies and programmes to
address multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination against girl and
young activists and remove the structural barriers they face;
(e)
Create and enhance platforms, processes and structures within which the
views of girl and young women activists are given due consideration, including formal
mechanisms and institutions, such as children’s parliaments and other possible
mechanisms for child participation, in a gender- and age-responsive and inclusive
manner, and ensure that such views are taken into account when adopting,
implementing and reviewing laws and policies;
(f)
Ensure that girl and young women activists have accessible and effective
remedies through;
(i)
Intensifying efforts to ensure the accountability of State agents, family and
community members, including traditional and religious leaders who violate the
rights of girl and young women activists;
(ii)
Securing access to multiple, safe, age-, disability- and gender-responsive
mechanisms to report reprisals, violence and abuse related to their activism and
receive support and care for physical and psychological abuse;
(iii) Facilitating child-friendly and gender-responsive complaint mechanisms
to address human rights violations from an intersectional perspective and
facilitate access to international complaint procedures by ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications
procedure;
(g)
Provide all girls and young women with comprehensive, free, accessible
and age-, disability- and gender-sensitive information including language-accessible
and culturally sensitive measures to enable them to cultivate and exercise their activism.
76.
States, private companies and all stakeholders concerned should take
appropriate measures to ensure online access and safety by:
(a)
Facilitating safe and inclusive online platforms for girls’ and young
women’s activism and ensure the accountability of service providers for facilitating
accessibility;
(b)
Expanding the accessibility and affordability of digital technology to all
girl and young women activists by investing in programmes tackling the gender-related
digital divide and the digital exclusion of certain groups of girl and young women
activists;
(c)
Taking measures to foster a safe online environment for girls and young
women, in particular by creating effective regulatory frameworks, including for content
moderation and reporting mechanisms, sanctioning perpetrators and providing
reliable information to address online gender- and age-related discrimination and
violence.
77.
Civil society organizations should foster girls’ and young women’s activism and
promote their collaboration, based on mutual respect, solidarity and diversity. In
particular, they should:
(a)
Facilitate spaces for girls’ and young women’s groups to operate in diverse
forms and an inclusive manner, including by supporting their initiatives and evolving
leadership;
(b)
Support dialogue and collaboration between adult and younger activists,
including providing them with relevant role models of women in activism and creating
mentoring programmes;
(c)
Facilitate access for girl and young women activists to decision makers,
funding, resources, training, networking and self-care programmes through the design
and implementation of empowering partnerships;
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