strategies and legislative, administrative, social,
educational and other measures to protect and
promote the rights of women and girls with disabilities, as persons with disabilities are more vulnerable to discrimination and violence and are still largely invisible in the implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals;
comprehensive policy measures; the removal,
where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in
legal frameworks, including punitive provisions; and
setting up legal, policy, administrative and other
comprehensive measures, including temporary
special measures as appropriate, to ensure women’s
and girls’ equal and effective access to justice and
accountability for violations of human rights of
women and girls;
(i) Encourage the participation of indigenous women
and girls in the World Conference on Indigenous
Peoples, noting the contribution of that conference
towards the achievement of internationally agreed
development goals, bearing in mind that indigenous
women and girls face particular challenges in achieving the Millennium Development Goals;
(d) Implement concrete and long-term measures to
transform discriminatory social norms and gender
stereotypes, including those that limit women’s
roles to being mothers and caregivers, and eliminate harmful practices including, inter alia, female
genital mutilation and honour crimes, in order to
achieve gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment and the full realization of the human
rights of women and girls;
(j) Enact and implement legislation to protect, support
and empower child-headed households, in particular
those headed by girls, and include provisions to ensure their economic well-being and access to healthcare services, nutrition, safe drinking water and
sanitation, shelter, education and inheritance, and
ensure that these families are protected, supported
and assisted to stay together;
(e) Fully engage men and boys, including community
leaders, as strategic partners and allies in the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls both in the family and in
society, design and implement national policies that
aim to transform those social norms that condone
violence against women and girls, and work to
counteract attitudes by which women and girls are
regarded as subordinate to men and boys, including
by understanding and addressing the root causes of
gender inequality such as unequal power relations,
social norms, practices and stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination against women and girls, and engage them in efforts to promote and achieve gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
(k) Address the multiple and intersecting factors
contributing to the disproportionate impact of
poverty on women and girls over their life cycle, as
well as intra-household gender inequalities in the
allocation of resources, opportunities and power, by
realizing women’s and girls’ civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to
development, and ensure women’s and girls’ inheritance and property rights, equal access to quality
education, equal access to justice, social protection
and an adequate standard of living, including food
security and nutrition, safe drinking water and
sanitation, energy and fuel resources and housing,
as well as women’s and adolescent girls’ access to
health, including sexual and reproductive healthcare services, and women’s equal access to full and
productive employment and decent work, women’s
full participation and integration in the formal
economy, equal pay for equal work or work of equal
value, and equal sharing of unpaid work;
(f) Acknowledge publicly the important and legitimate
role of women human rights defenders in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy,
the rule of law and development and take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect them;
(g) Adopt and implement specific and targeted mea-
sures recognizing that some women experience
increased vulnerability and marginalization owing
to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination
and inequalities;
(l) Eliminate all forms of violence against all women
and girls in public and private spaces through multisectoral and coordinated approaches to prevent and
respond to violence against women and girls and
(h) Take all appropriate measures to adopt and im-
plement disability-inclusive national development
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