Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 23gg
Paragraph- Original document
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
[The Commission [...] urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening women's leadership and women's full and equal participation in decision-making in all areas of sustainable development]: Take measures to ensure women's full, equal and effective participation, including through temporary special measures as appropriate, by setting and working to achieve concrete goals, targets and benchmarks, including by providing education and training, and by removing all barriers that directly and indirectly hinder the participation of women, and girls where applicable, in decision-making roles in all sectors and at all levels, such as lack of access to quality and inclusive education and training, as well as such barriers as violence, poverty, unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work, and gender stereotypes;
- Document legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CSW Agreed Conclusions, Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development (2016), para. 23gg.
- Paragraph number
- 23gg