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Women in development
45. Further recognizes the special needs of women and girls living in areas
affected by complex humanitarian emergencies and in areas affected by terrorism, and
that global health threats, climate change, more frequent and intense natural disasters,
conflicts, violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism, and related
humanitarian crises and the forced displacement of people threaten to reverse much
of the development progress made in recent decades and have particular negative
impacts on women and girls that need to be comprehensively assessed and addressed;
46. Encourages Member States and the United Nations system to ensure
systematic attention to, recognition of and support for the crucial role of women at all
levels and at all stages in the prevention and resolution of conflict, in mediation and
peacebuilding efforts and in the rebuilding of post-conflict societies, inter alia, by
promoting women’s capacity, leadership, participation and engagement in political
and economic decision-making and by preventing, combating and eliminating sexual
and gender-based violence in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, and, in this
regard, to promote and facilitate an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a
gender perspective into all policies and programmes;
47. Encourages Governments and all sectors of society to take sustainable
measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work
on an equal basis and ensure that labour markets and work environments are open,
inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities, and to take positive measures to
increase the employment of women with disabilities and to eliminate discrimination
on the basis of disability with regard to all matters concerning all forms of
employment, including recruitment, retention and promotion, and the provision of
safe, secure and healthy working conditions, in consultation with releva nt national
mechanisms and organizations of persons with disabilities, including by promoting
access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and
entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and
maintain maximum independence, as noted in the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities 22 and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and
notes the need to strengthen efforts aimed at addressing the rights and needs of women
and children with disabilities;
48. Urges States to promote the integration of a gender perspective into
environmental and climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide
adequate resources to ensure the full and equal participation of women in all levels of
decision-making on environmental issues, stresses the need to address the challenges
for women and girls posed by climate change, and emphasizes the importance of
gender mainstreaming in developing and implementing disaster risk reduction,
preparedness, response and recovery strategies, taking into account the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; 23
49. Stresses the importance of improving and systematizing the collection,
analysis and dissemination of high-quality, accessible, timely and reliable data,
disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability,
geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, and of
developing gender-sensitive indicators that are specific and relevant with respect to
supporting policymaking and national systems for monitoring and reporting on
progress and impact, and in this regard encourages developed countries and relevant
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