at all levels, including through temporary special measures, and to ensure the participation of women’s organizations in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. Measures of accountability for the achievement of gender equality, the empowerment of women, and the realization of the human rights of women and girls are also reflected. of women and girls, including women human rights defenders, indigenous women and girls, and migrants. Section B targets the broader enabling environment. It includes provisions to ensure that global trade, financial and investment agreements, as well as macro-economic policies promote gender equality. Actions call for integration of a gender perspective in response to climate change and for women’s participation in all aspects of peacebuilding. Actions in support of women in trade, rural women in agriculture, and in regard to the role of the media are also included in this section. Two concluding paragraphs make essential linkages to the future. The Commission (paragraph 43) urges States to build on the lessons from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals as the new post-2015 development agenda is being shaped. It calls for critical remaining challenges to be tackled through a transformative and comprehensive approach and for a stand-alone goal on gender equality, the empowerment of women and human rights of women and girls and integration of gender equality targets and indicators across the future framework. The Commission (paragraph 44) also urges all States and all other stakeholders to undertake comprehensive national and regional level reviews of the progress made and challenges encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and to implement commemorative activities for the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Section C calls for increased investments in gender equality. It includes actions to increase resources for gender equality through domestic resources and official development assistance, to fulfill official development assistance commitments, to institutionalize gender-responsive budgeting, to cost national actions plans on gender equality to ensure their implementation, and to increase funding for women’s organizations. Section D includes actions to address data gaps and to improve gender statistics. It includes actions to collect data on the minimum set of gender indicators and violence against women indicators, and to develop and enhance standards in key areas such as women’s poverty, income distribution within households, unpaid care work, women’s access to, control and ownership of assets and productive resources, and women’s participation at all levels of decision-making. Governments and other stakeholders are now called upon to implement the actions contained in the agreed conclusions to achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and the full realization of the human rights of women and girls across the globe. UN Women stands ready to support all stakeholders in these efforts. Section E includes actions to ensure women’s participation and leadership in all fields and 2

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