E/CN.6/2024/L.3 strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective. It respects and values the diversity of situations and conditions of women and girls and recognizes that some women face particular barriers to their empowerment. It stresses that, while all women and girls have the same human rights, wo men and girls in different contexts have particular needs and priorities, requiring appropriate responses. 13. The Commission expresses concern that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global cha llenge and that the feminization of poverty persists. It notes that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, social justice, gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights; and recognizes the importance of taking positive action, including in the form of policies and partnerships, at the local, national, regional and international levels, that address existing inequalities, among and within countries, in the distribution of and access to services, resources and infrastructure, as well as access to food, water, health, quality education, training and opportunities for employment and decent work in urban and rural, remote and maritime areas and other human settlements in order to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and vulnerability. 14. The Commission recognizes with deep concern that women and girls are at greater risk of poverty and experience higher poverty rates than men and boys and that the gender poverty gap is projected to persist. It acknowledges that, currently, 10.3 per cent of women are living in extreme poverty and, if current trends continue, an estimated 8 per cent of women worldwide (342 million) will be subsisting on less than $2.15 a day in 2030, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. It further notes with concern that women and girls in poverty experience multiple and compounding deprivations that are intensified by other dimensions of inequality, including race, colour, sex, age, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other status, and their experiences of poverty are shaped by negative social norms and gender stereotypes. 15. The Commission recognizes that global challenges and emergencies, including those related to health, energy and food security, natural disasters and geopolitical tensions and wars often disproportionately affect women and girls, and that these have pushed people, in particular women and girls, further behind and into extreme poverty. 16. The Commission reaffirms the right to food and recognizes that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, which are exacerbated by gender inequality and discrimination. It notes with concern that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition and that, in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases. It recognizes the critical role of women in both shortand long-term responses to food insecurity, malnutrition, excessive price volatility and food crises in developing countries, and acknowledges women ’s contribution to more than 50 per cent of the food produced globally a nd that they represent 70 per cent of agricultural workers. 17. The Commission recalls that the human rights to safe drinking water and to sanitation are essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights by women and girls. It is deeply concerned that water scarcity and disruptions to supply induced by, inter alia, climate change, environmental degradation and disasters disproportionately affect women and girls, with women walking long distances or waiting hours in queues to obtain water, which restricts their time for other activities, such as education and leisure, or for women earning a livelihood. 18. The Commission remains deeply concerned that all women and girls, especially in developing countries, including small island developing State s, and particularly 4/27 24-05678