Elimination of discrimination against women 2016, para. 12

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Further urges States to ensure equal access to and equal treatment of women and men in education and health care, and to enhance women’s sexual and reproductive health as well as education, including by, inter alia, training health providers and other health-care workers on gender equality and non-discrimination, respect for women’s rights and dignity, in lifesaving obstetric care and when giving birth, especially midwives and auxiliary nurses, ensuring the affordability of medicines and treatments, avoiding the overmedicalization of women’s health, acknowledging alternative medicine, abolishing discriminatory practices that hinder women’s access to health services, and providing age-appropriate, sexual health information, education and counselling, based on scientific evidence and human rights, for women, girls, men and boys;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Elimination of discrimination against women (2016), A/HRC/RES/32/4, OP 12.
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OP
Paragraph number
12