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democracy, the rule of law and development and take appropriate, robust and
practical steps to protect them;
(g) Adopt and implement specific and targeted measures recognizing
that some women experience increased vulnerability and marginalization
owing to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities;
(h) Take all appropriate measures to adopt and implement disabilityinclusive national development strategies and legislative, administrative, social,
educational and other measures to protect and promote the rights of women
and girls with disabilities, as persons with disabilities are more vulnerable to
discrimination and violence and are still largely invisible in the implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals;
(i) Encourage the participation of indigenous women and girls in the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, noting the contribution of that
conference towards the achievement of internationally agreed development
goals, bearing in mind that indigenous women and girls face particular
challenges in achieving the Millennium Development Goals;
(j) Enact and implement legislation to protect, support and empower
child-headed households, in particular those headed by girls, and include
provisions to ensure their economic well-being and access to health-care
services, nutrition, safe drinking water and sanitation, shelter, education and
inheritance, and ensure that these families are protected, supported and
assisted to stay together;
(k) Address the multiple and intersecting factors contributing to the
disproportionate impact of poverty on women and girls over their life cycle, as
well as intra-household gender inequalities in the allocation of resources,
opportunities and power, by realizing women’s and girls’ civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, and
ensure women’s and girls’ inheritance and property rights, equal access to
quality education, equal access to justice, social protection and an adequate
standard of living, including food security and nutrition, safe drinking water
and sanitation, energy and fuel resources and housing, as well as women’s and
adolescent girls’ access to health, including sexual and reproductive healthcare services, and women’s equal access to full and productive employment
and decent work, women’s full participation and integration in the formal
economy, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal sharing
of unpaid work;
(l) Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in
public and private spaces through multisectoral and coordinated approaches to
prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and exercise due
diligence, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence
against women and girls and end impunity, and provide protection as well as
universal access to comprehensive social, health and legal services for all
victims and survivors, to ensure their full recovery and reintegration into
society and, bearing in mind the importance for all women and girls to live
free from violence, to address the structural and underlying causes of violence
against women and girls through enhanced prevention measures, research and
strengthened coordination and monitoring and evaluation;
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