(z) S
upport and protect those who are committed to
Accelerate efforts to develop, review and
(ee)
eliminating violence against women, including
women human rights defenders in this regard,
who face particular risks of violence;
strengthen policies, and allocate adequate
financial and human resources, in order to
address the structural and underlying causes
of violence against women and girls, including
gender discrimination, inequality, unequal
power relations between women and men,
gender stereotypes, poverty as well as their
lack of empowerment, in particular in the
context of the economic and financial crisis;
and accelerate efforts to eradicate poverty
and persistent legal, social and economic
inequalities, including by strengthening the
economic participation, empowerment and
inclusion of women and girls, in order to
decrease their risk of violence;
(aa)
Take appropriate measures to ensure the
human rights and protection of women and
girls deprived of their liberty and/or under State
custody or State care from all forms of violence, in
particular sexual abuse;
Adopt a life-cycle approach in efforts to end
(bb)
discrimination and violence against women and
girls, and ensure that specific issues affecting
older women are given greater visibility and
attention, are addressed through the fulfilment
of obligations under relevant international
conventions and agreements and are included in
national policies and programmes to prevent and
eliminate violence against women;
Refrain from promulgating and applying any
(ff)
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;
B. Addressing structural and
underlying causes and risk factors
so as to prevent violence against
women and girls
Take all appropriate legislative, administrative,
(gg)
social, educational and other measures to protect
and promote the rights of women and girls with
disabilities as they are more vulnerable to all forms
of exploitation, violence and abuse, including in
the workplace, educational institutions, the home
and other settings;
Accelerate efforts to prevent and eliminate
(cc)
all forms of discrimination against women
and girls and ensure their equal enjoyment of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
including the right to education and to the
highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health; ensure that all children,
particularly girls, have equal access to, and
complete, free and compulsory primary
education of good quality, and renew their
efforts to improve and expand girls’ education
at all levels, including the secondary and
higher levels, in all academic areas; and
increase the ability of girls to attend school
and extracurricular activities by investing in
public infrastructure projects and accessible
quality public services and providing a
safe environment;
Undertake legislative, administrative, financial
(hh)
and other measures to give women full and
equal access to economic resources, including
the right to inheritance and to ownership of
land and other property, credit, natural resources
and appropriate technologies, inter alia, by
means of international cooperation; prioritize
and intensify initiatives towards the economic
empowerment of women at the grass-roots level,
including through entrepreneurship education
and business incubators, as a way of uplifting
their status, thereby reducing their vulnerability
to violence;
(dd)
Promote women’s full participation in the formal
(ii) Refrain from using social justifications for
economy, in particular in economic decisionmaking, and their equal access to full employment
and decent work; empower women in the informal
sector; and ensure that women and men enjoy
equal treatment in the workplace, as well as equal
pay for equal work or work of equal value, and
equal access to power and decision-making, and
promote sharing of paid and unpaid work;
denying women their freedom of movement,
the right to own property and the right to equal
protection under the law;
Design and implement national policies that aim
(jj)
at transforming those social norms that condone
violence against women and girls, and work to
counteract attitudes by which women and girls
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