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(f)
Take steps to ensure that health service providers undertake their
professional duties in accordance with human rights and comply with their ethical
obligations.
4.
Ensure the participation of women and girls and promote male accountability
79.
The Working Group recommends that States:
(a)
Increase the representation and effective participation of women and girls
in decision-making processes at all levels and ensure gender parity, including in crisis
prevention, management and recovery processes;
(b)
Systematically engage diverse women’s rights organizations and feminist
organizations in the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and
continual improvement of law, policy and practice relating to sexual and reproductive
health and in the identification and removal of barriers;
(c)
Build participatory processes that are empowering, inclusive, accessible
and non-discriminatory, with special attention given to women and girls who have been
disproportionately affected by crisis, including in disenfranchised and marginalized
populations, such as migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons;
(d)
Integrate gender, age, disability and intercultural perspectives into all
policies and practices and promote leadership by women and young people;
(e)
Promote male engagement and accountability to address pervasive
sexism, misogyny, violence and toxic masculinity and to promote the sexual and
reproductive health rights of women and girls.
5.
Push back against conservative and anti-human rights ideologies and misinformation
80.
The Working Group recommends that States:
(a)
Actively push back against conservative religious and racialized political
ideologies that undermine gender equality;
(b)
Oppose misinformation and religious positions that subvert the sexual and
reproductive health rights of women and girls;
(c)
Ensure that international aid and assistance, including humanitarian
assistance, is provided and operationalized in accordance with human rights standards
and prioritizes respect for the human rights of women and girls, without harmful
restrictions;
(d)
Support the United Nations system in countering religious ideologies
opposing the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls and ensure that
all United Nations processes are coordinated and conducted with full respect for those
rights;
(e)
Refrain from using political and financial influence with States and nonState actors to undermine and retrogress the rights of women and girls by leading or
supporting ideological agendas that are antithetical to human rights norms.
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