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15. Urges all Governments to ensure women’s equal rights with men and
their equal access to all levels of education;
16. Urges Member States to encourage women entrepreneurs, including
through education and training of women in business, administration and
information and communications technologies, and invites business associations to
assist national efforts in this regard;
17. Calls upon Governments to promote, inter alia, through legislation and
family-friendly and gender-sensitive work environments, the facilitation of
breastfeeding for working mothers and the provision of the necessary care for
working women’s children and other dependants and to consider promoting policies
and programmes, as appropriate, to enable men and women to reconcile their work,
social and family responsibilities;
18. Urges Member States to design and revise laws that ensure that women
are accorded full and equal rights to own land, housing and other property, including
through inheritance, and to undertake administrative reforms and other necessary
measures to give women the same right as men to credit, capital and appropriate
technologies and access to markets and information;
19. Recognizes the need to empower women economically and politically,
particularly poor women, and in this regard encourages Governments, with the
support of their development partners, to invest in appropriate infrastructure and
other projects, as well as to create opportunities for economic empowerment, in
order to alleviate for women and girls the burden of time-consuming everyday tasks;
20. Expresses its concern at the overall expansion and feminization of the
HIV/AIDS pandemic and that women and girls bear a disproportionate share of the
burden imposed by the HIV/AIDS crisis, that they are more easily infected, that
they play a key role in care and that they have become more vulnerable to violence,
stigma and discrimination, poverty, and marginalization from their families and
communities as a result of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and calls upon Governments and
the international community to intensify efforts towards the goal of universal access
to comprehensive HIV prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by
2010;
21. Reaffirms the commitment to achieve universal access to reproductive
health by 2015, as set out at the International Conference on Population and
Development, 8 integrating this goal into strategies to attain the internationally
agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations
Millennium Declaration5 aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal
health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS
and eradicating poverty;
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22. Recognizes that a substantial increase in official development assistance
and other resources will be required if developing countries are to achieve the
internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including the Millennium
Development Goals, and that, in order to build support for official development
assistance, cooperation will be needed in further improving policies and
development strategies, both nationally and internationally, to enhance aid
effectiveness;
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See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18).
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