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(x) Develop and implement educational programmes and teaching
materials, including comprehensive evidence-based education for human
sexuality, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and
youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with the
appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the
involvement of children, adolescents, youth and communities and in
coordination with women’s, youth and specialized non-governmental
organizations, in order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of
men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote and build
informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills for the
development of respectful relationships and based on gender equality and
human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both
formal and non-formal education;
(y) With the support of international organizations, civil society and
non-governmental organizations, as appropriate, develop policies and
programmes, giving priority to formal, informal and non-formal education,
that support girls and enable them to acquire knowledge, develop self-esteem
and take responsibility for their own lives, and place special focus on
programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, about the
importance of girls’ physical and mental health and well-being, including the
elimination of discrimination and violence against girls;
(z) Ensure women’s right to work and rights at work through genderresponsive policies and programmes that promote women’s economic
empowerment, including decent work for all, promote equal pay for equal work
or work of equal value, invest in and empower women in productive sectors of
the economy, support women’s technical, managerial and entrepreneurial
capacities, promote collective bargaining, address the gendered division of
labour, prohibit and redress sexual harassment, prevent discrimination against
women in the workplace, support the reconciliation of paid work with
family/care responsibilities for both women and men, and promote women’s
full and equal participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic
decision-making, and empower women in the informal economy, with
particular attention to women domestic workers, who are entitled to the same
basic rights as other workers, including protection from violence and abuse,
fair terms of employment, and a safe and healthy working environment;
(aa) Guarantee women’s and girls’ inheritance rights and their full and
equal access to and control over assets and natural and other productive
resources, including full and equal rights to own and lease land and other
property, and undertaking administrative reforms and all necessary measures to
give women the same right as men to credit capital, finance, financial assets,
science and technology, vocational training, information and communications
technologies and markets, and to ensure equal access to justice and legal
assistance;
(bb) Encourage States and relevant civil society groups to empower
women and girls by supporting programmes that facilitate participation
through public and private investment in agriculture aiming to achieve food
security and nutrition;
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