Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 32
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7. Draws attention to the fact that, in order to ensure the full participation of women and girls in the digital age, digital divides, which disproportionately affect women and girls living in rural or remote areas, need to be addressed by facilitating women’s and girls’ equal access to digital technologies, to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and to a technological environment that is conducive to engagement by all women and girls, including through the use of assistive technologies, and promotes a safe and secure digital environment for women and girls, without discrimination or risk of violence and with particular focus on the needs of women and girls facing intersecting systemic inequalities;