A/HRC/56/51 90. States and international and regional organizations should uphold an integrated approach to the advancement of gender equality, encompassing the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in the family, culture, the economy and sexual and reproductive health rights. 91. States should: (a) Consider recognizing gender apartheid as a crime against humanity in the draft convention on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity; (b) forums; Leverage feminist foreign policies to promote gender equality in all (c) Address the specific impacts of business activities on women and girls, incorporate a gender perspective into all measures to regulate business activities and seek business cooperation and support to implement women’s and girls’ rights; (d) Ensure that the situation of human rights of women and girls in other countries is central to their policy decisions and engagement with those countries; (e) Promote and pursue international cooperation to ensure women’s and girls’ rights, including through institutional capacity-building. 2. Eliminate discrimination and commit to achieving substantive gender equality 92. States should eliminate discriminatory laws, policies and practices, including those that discriminate against women and girls on the grounds of tradition, culture or religion, and should take proactive measures to achieve substantive gender equality, including by: (a) Identifying and addressing, with the full and meaningful participation of the women and girls concerned, the specific challenges faced by distinct groups of women and girls who, because of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, experience compounded inequality; (b) Recognizing the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls as essential, fully integrating them into crisis prevention, response, assessment, management, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction plans and providing comprehensive sexuality education; (c) Recognizing, reducing and redistributing unpaid care and domestic work, while ensuring decent work, representation, social dialogue and collective bargaining for paid care workers; (d) Guaranteeing universal, accessible, gender-responsive and comprehensive social protection; adequate, available, (e) Providing effective remedies, including in situations of conflict and other crises, and ensuring accountability for violations of women’s and girls’ rights; (f) Establishing appropriate participatory monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and disaggregated intersectional data collection to oversee the implementation of relevant programmes and policies, assess their impacts and adopt any corrective measures needed, including with regard to sufficient fund allocation and gender budgeting; (g) Embarking on a feminist, human rights-based review of socioeconomic policies and strategies with a view to designing and implementing the necessary reforms towards realizing substantive equality; (h) Regulating private service providers, including education and health-care providers, to ensure that the services that they provide are accessible to all, are adequate and are regularly assessed in order to meet the needs of women and girls; (i) Establishing parity, including through temporary special measures, to ensure the equal representation of women in public, political and economic 20 GE.24-07559