their skills and education, provide fair labour
conditions, and as appropriate facilitate their
productive employment and decent work as well
as integration into the labour force;
(yy)
Take measures to ensure that all workplaces
are free from discrimination and exploitation,
violence, and sexual harassment and bullying,
and that they address discrimination
and violence against women and girls, as
appropriate, through measures such as
regulatory and oversight frameworks and
reforms, collective agreements, codes of conduct,
including appropriate disciplinary measures,
protocols and procedures, referral of cases of
violence to health services for treatment and
police for investigation; as well as through
awareness-raising and capacity-building, in
collaboration with employers, unions and
workers, including workplace services and
flexibility for victims and survivors;
(ccc)
Also take measures to ensure the protection of
self-employed workers in cross-border work and
women seasonal workers from violence and
discrimination;
C. Strengthening multisectoral
services, programmes and
responses to violence against
women and girls
(ddd)
Establish comprehensive, coordinated,
inter-disciplinary, accessible and sustained
multisectoral services, programmes and responses
at all levels, and with the support of all available
technologies, for all victims and survivors of all
forms of violence against women and girls based
on their needs, that are adequately resourced and
include effective and coordinated action by, as
appropriate, police and the justice sector, legal aid
services, health-care services, including sexual and
reproductive health, and medical, psychological
and other counselling services, including specialist
services as appropriate, State and independent
women’s shelters and counselling centres,
24-hour hotlines, social aid services, one-stop
crisis centres, immigration services, child services,
public housing services to provide low threshold,
easy to reach and safe assistance for women
and children, as well as assistance, protection
and support through access to long-term
accommodation, educational, employment and
economic opportunities, and take steps to ensure
the safety and security of health-care workers
and service providers who assist and support
victims and survivors of violence, and in cases
of girl child victims ensure that such services
and responses take into account the best
interests of the child;
Increase measures to protect women and girls
(zz)
from violence and harassment, including sexual
harassment and bullying, in both public and
private spaces, to address security and safety,
through awareness-raising, involvement of local
communities, crime prevention laws, policies,
programmes such as the Safe Cities Initiative of
the United Nations, improved urban planning,
infrastructures, public transport and street
lighting, and also through social and interactive
media;
Condemn and take action to prevent violence
(aaa)
against women and girls in health-care settings,
including sexual harassment, humiliation and
forced medical procedures, or those conducted
without informed consent, and which may be
irreversible, such as forced hysterectomy, forced
caesarean section, forced sterilization, forced
abortion, and forced use of contraceptives,
especially for particularly vulnerable and
disadvantaged women and girls, such as those
living with HIV, women and girls with disabilities,
indigenous and Afro-descendent women and
girls, pregnant adolescents and young mothers,
older women, and women and girls from national
or ethnic minorities;
(bbb)
Further adopt and implement measures to
(eee)
Further take measures to coordinate services
ensure the social and legal inclusion and
protection of women migrants, including women
migrant workers in origin, transit and destination
countries, and promote and protect the full
realization of their human rights, and their
protection against violence and exploitation;
implement gender-sensitive policies and
programmes for women migrant workers and
provide safe and legal channels that recognize
through the establishment of processes
for referral between services of victims and
survivors while ensuring their confidentiality
and safety, establish national benchmarks
and timelines, and monitor their progress and
implementation; as well as ensure access to
coordinated multisectoral services, programmes
and responses for all women and girls at risk of or
subjected to violence;
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