Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 09
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Reaffirming women’s and girls’ economic and social rights, and emphasizing the significant role that women play in economic development and in the eradication of poverty, and that sustainable development will only be achievable with women’s economic empowerment and independence, and equal economic rights of women and men, and, where applicable, girls and boys, to economic and productive resources, including ownership and control of land, natural and other productive resources, property, inheritance, and financial services, including microfinance, equal opportunities for women for full and productive employment and decent work, and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, legal advice and support, vocational training, information and communications technology and markets, and by removing barriers to women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in local, national and international economies,