Elimination of discrimination against women 2013, para. 8
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Calls upon States to promote the rights of women and girls and to support their empowerment by adopting, as appropriate, a coherent set of gender-responsive social and economic policies directed at the family, the workplace and the marketplace, and by addressing poverty and social exclusion in order to overcome the structural barriers and inequalities they face and to thereby ensure their long-term and sustainable participation in political and public life;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2013
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Elimination of discrimination against women (2013), A/HRC/RES/23/7, OP 8.