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11.
Calls upon States to progressively realize the full enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health,
and to eliminate legal, administrative, financial and social barriers that hinder universal
access to available, accessible, acceptable, timely, affordable and quality health services for
women and girls through gender-responsive national strategies and public-health policies
and programmes that are comprehensive, affordable and better targeted to addressing their
needs;
12.
Urges States to ensure the promotion, protection and the fulfilment of all
human rights and the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences and of sexual and
reproductive health and reproductive rights in this context, and to promote, protect and
fulfil the right of all women to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on
matters related to their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from
discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and
the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that
respect the right to decide autonomously in matters regarding their own lives and health,
including their bodies, and to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health,
services, information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective
methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for
adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency
obstetric care, safe abortion where not against national law and the prevention and
treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and
reproductive cancers and the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national
strategies and programmes;
13.
Also urges States to create and support an enabling environment for the full
participation of women’s civil society organizations and women human rights defenders in
the creation, design and implementation of all relevant legislation and policies relevant to
the human rights of women, as well as when adopting and implementing good practices
conducive for the sustainable application of equality and empowerment measures for
women, and also to consider the application of the good practices framework for the
creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society developed in
the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,6 with a genderresponsive perspective that takes into account the unique position and challenges faced by
women human rights defenders;
14.
Calls upon all States to continue to develop and enhance standards and
methodologies at the national and international levels to improve the collection, analysis
and dissemination of gender statistics and sex- and age-disaggregated data by strengthening
national statistical capacity, including by enhancing the mobilization, from all sources, of
financial and technical assistance for enabling developing countries to systematically
design, collect and ensure access to high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by
sex, age, income and other characteristics relevant in national contexts;
15.
Also calls upon all States to cooperate with and assist the Working Group on
the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice in its task, to supply all
necessary available information requested by it and to give serious consideration to
responding favourably to its requests to visit their country to enable it to fulfil its mandate
effectively;
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