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including in schools and in displaced and refugee camps and settlements, especially
education and public awareness-raising, including through the media and online, the
incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher training courses,
including the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination, and
ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education consistent
with the evolving capacities of the child;
13.
Urges States and encourages other relevant stakeholders, including national
human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels,
utilizing a comprehensive human rights-based approach to address the interlinked causes of
maternal mortality and morbidity, such as lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate
health-care services for all, and of information and education, lack of access to medicine
and medical equipment, all types of malnutrition, lack of access to safe drinking water and
sanitation, poverty, underdevelopment, human and material shortages facing health-care
systems, humanitarian and funding shortages affecting hospitals, technical assistance,
capacity-building and training needs, harmful practices, including child, early and forced
marriage and female genital mutilation, early childbearing, gender-based inequalities and
all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, to take concrete measures
to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, especially adolescent girls, and
to ensure access to accountability for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence,
including effective reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence, such as the prosecution of
sexual and gender-based violence committed in humanitarian settings, while ensuring the
meaningful and effective participation of women and girls in the relevant processes;
14. Calls upon all relevant actors, including Governments, regional organizations,
relevant United Nations agencies, national human rights institutions, entities providing
humanitarian assistance and civil society organizations to, within their respective mandates,
strengthen their efforts to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity in
humanitarian settings when designing, implementing and reviewing policies and evaluating
programmes to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, while ensuring the
meaningful participation of women and girls in all decisions that affect them;
15.
Calls upon States to ensure a more holistic and coordinated approach to the
humanitarian-development nexus that places the individual woman and girl at the centre of
humanitarian preparedness and response, and recognizes the need to overcome siloed
approaches and fragmented programming;
16.
Also calls upon States to ensure the effective and meaningful participation of
women and girls, including through civil society and feminist networks and women’s rights
organizations, in identifying and determining needs, priorities for funding and service,
processes for access and delivery, and crisis response, in recognition of their agency;
17.
Urges States to strengthen their statistical capacity and to promote reliable
transparent, collaborative and disaggregated data collection on the availability, accessibility,
acceptability and quality of sexual and reproductive health-care services for all women and
girls in affected populations, including host populations;
18.
Invites States to consider the systematic integration of sexual and
reproductive health as an integral part of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health into the mandates of investigative
bodies established by the Human Rights Council, including commissions of inquiry and
fact-finding missions, and to address human rights violations suffered by women in
humanitarian settings;
19.
Requests the High Commissioner to prepare, from within existing resources,
in consultation with States, United Nations agencies and all other relevant stakeholders, a
follow-up report on good practices and challenges to respecting, protecting and fulfilling all
human rights in the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, including
through the utilization of the technical guidance by States and other relevant actors,
including the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development
Programme, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN-Women) and the World Health Organization, and to present it to the Human
Rights Council at its forty-fifth session;
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