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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;
(f)
Promoting women’s full participation in the formal economy, in particular in
economic decision-making, and their equal access to full and productive employment,
decent work and social protection, ensuring that women and men enjoy equal treatment in
the workplace, as well as equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal access
to power and decision-making, and promoting the equal distribution of paid and unpaid
work, including valuing unpaid care work;
(g)
Empowering 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;
(h)
Promoting equal and full access to and control over agricultural assets and
productive resources, as well as membership in professional or trade associations and
access to information networks;
(i)
Encouraging private sector investment in programmes, campaigns and
strategies to respond to, prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls and to empower victims and survivors of violence, including
survivors of conflict-related sexual violence;
(j)
Promoting equal access to literacy, education, health services, food security,
vocational, professional and leadership skills training, mentorship and employment
opportunities, which ensure that women have access to the skills that are necessary to
ensure their full political and economic empowerment;
(k)
Promoting and protecting sexual and reproductive health and reproductive
rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action, and the outcome
documents of their review conferences;
(l)
Improving the safety of girls at, and on the way to and from, school,
including by establishing a safe and violence-free environment by improving infrastructure,
such as transportation, and providing separate and adequate sanitation facilities, improved
lighting, playgrounds and safe environments, and adopting national policies to prohibit,
prevent and address violence against children, especially girls, including sexual harassment
and bullying and other forms of violence, through measures such as conducting violence
prevention activities in schools and communities and establishing and enforcing penalties
for violence against girls;
(m) Adopting measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular
women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights and the law, and the
protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the
assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring
that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected
to lence at all stages of the justice system, and to address social stigma and legal
discrimination faced by victims of violence;
(n)
Incorporating a gender perspective into social and economic policies,
including development and poverty eradication strategies, with a view to ensuring that the
formulation and implementation of relevant strategies contribute to women’s economic
empowerment, thereby reducing their risk of violence;
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