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(n) Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws, social infrastructure and
policies for sustainable development, as well as enable the full, equal and meaningful
participation and leadership of women, including young women, in all spheres and
levels of public life and their equal access to policy- and decision-making processes
and eliminate gender stereotypes and negative social norms;
(o) Eliminate all forms of discrimination, including those exacerbated by
poverty and hunger, against all women and girls and implement targeted measures
and universal social protection interventions to address multiple and intersecting
forms of discrimination and ensure that all women and girls enjoy equal access, both
in law and in practice, to social protection, public and financial services, productive
resources and sustainable infrastructure, which can, inter a lia, contribute to the
eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty and,
in particular, the feminization of poverty, and to the reduction of gender inequality
through the adoption, where needed, of laws and comprehensiv e policy measures and
their effective and accelerated implementation and monitoring, ensuring women ’s full
and productive employment and decent work, and women’s and girls’ access to justice
and accountability for violations and abuses of their human right s and fundamental
freedoms; and ensure that the provisions of multiple legal systems, where they exist,
at all levels comply with international human rights obligations;
(p) Eliminate, prevent and respond to all forms of violence against all women
and girls in public and private spaces, online and offline, such as sexual and genderbased violence, including domestic violence, gender-related killings, including
femicides, all harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage and
female genital mutilation, sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, as
well as trafficking in persons and modern slavery and other forms of exploitation,
through multisectoral and coordinated approaches to investigate, prosecute and
punish the perpetrators of violence and end impunity, and take appropriate measures
to create a safe, enabling and violence-free working environment for women,
including by ratifying key international treaties that provide protection against
gender-based violence and sexual harassment;
(q) Enact or strengthen and enforce laws and policies to eliminate all forms of
violence, discrimination and harassment against women of all ages in the world of
work, in public and private spheres, and provide means of effective redress in cases
of non-compliance; ensure safety for women in the workplace; address the multiple
consequences of violence and harassment, considering that violence against women
and girls is an obstacle to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment; and,
if applicable, develop measures to promote re-entry of victims and survivors of
violence into the labour market;
(r) Take appropriate measures to combat trafficking and raise public
awareness about the risks of trafficking in persons, including women and girls, and
the factors that make women and girls vulnerable to trafficking, addressing all forms
of associated violence, and discourage, with a view to eliminating, the demand that
fosters all forms of exploitation, including sexual exploitation and forced labour;
(s) Refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic,
financial or trade measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter
of the United Nations that impede the full achievement of economic and social
development, particularly in developing countries;
(t) Ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation and representation of
women in diverse situations and conditions in all spheres of public life and at all
levels, as well as their leadership in decision-making processes, including in
economic policy, budget and financial processes, public institutions and in designing
and implementing poverty eradication policies to address institutional gender biases,
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