safe drinking water and sanitation, transport,
energy, housing, agricultural technology, financial
and legal services, and information and communications technologies;
that promote women’s economic empowerment,
including decent work for all, promote equal pay for
equal work or work of equal value, invest in and empower women in productive sectors of the economy,
support women’s technical, managerial and entrepreneurial capacities, promote collective bargaining,
address the gendered division of labour, prohibit
and redress sexual harassment, prevent discrimination against women in the workplace, support the
reconciliation of paid work with family/care responsibilities for both women and men, and promote
women’s full and equal participation in the formal
economy, in particular in economic decision-making,
and empower women in the informal economy, with
particular attention to women domestic workers,
who are entitled to the same basic rights as other
workers, including protection from violence and
abuse, fair terms of employment, and a safe and
healthy working environment;
(ee) Invest in closing the gender gap in information and
communications technologies by making them affordable and accessible, including as regards access
to broadband as a tool for the empowerment of
women and girls and the exercise of their full range
of human rights, access to information, access to
markets, networking and increased opportunities;
(ff) Promote universal social protection across the life
cycle, including for older women, that gives women
and girls protection against risks and vulnerabilities
and promotes their social inclusion and full enjoyment of all human rights;
(gg) Recognize that caregiving is a critical societal func-
(aa) Guarantee women’s and girls’ inheritance rights and
tion and therefore emphasize the need to value,
reduce and redistribute unpaid care work by prioritizing social protection policies, including accessible
and affordable social services, including care services
for children, persons with disabilities, older persons
and persons living with HIV and AIDS, and all others
in need of care; the development of infrastructure,
including access to environmentally sound time- and
energy-saving technologies; employment policies,
including family-friendly policies with maternity and
paternity leave and benefits; and the promotion of
the equal sharing of responsibilities and chores between men and women in caregiving and domestic
work to reduce the domestic work burden of women
and girls and to change the attitudes that reinforce
the division of labour based on gender;
their full and equal access to and control over assets
and natural and other productive resources, including
full and equal rights to own and lease land and other
property, and undertaking administrative reforms and
all necessary measures to give women the same right
as men to credit capital, finance, financial assets, science and technology, vocational training, information
and communications technologies and markets, and
to ensure equal access to justice and legal assistance;
(bb) Encourage States and relevant civil society groups
to empower women and girls by supporting
programmes that facilitate participation through
public and private investment in agriculture aiming
to achieve food security and nutrition;
(cc) Recognize, resource and support programmes that
(hh) Recognize the family as a contributor to sustain-
advance gender equality and women’s rights in all
areas of economic activities, including fisheries and
aquaculture, to address food security and nutrition,
and meaningfully facilitate women’s contributions
to small-scale and artisan fisheries and aquaculture, commercial fisheries, and the use and care of
oceans and seas;
able development, including in the achievement of
the internationally agreed development goals for
women and girls, that gender equality and women’s
empowerment improve the well-being of the family,
and in this regard stress the need for elaborating
and implementing family policies aimed at achieving
gender equality and women’s empowerment and at
enhancing the full participation of women in society;
(dd) Ensure non-discriminatory access for women of all
ages to gender-responsive, universally accessible,
available, affordable, sustainable and high-quality
services and infrastructure, including health care,
(ii) Promote and protect effectively the human rights
and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, especially those
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