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technology; promote equal and affordable access to digital skills, connectivity and
the Internet, using a multidimensional approach that includes speed, stability,
affordability, language, training, capacity-building, local content and accessibility,
including for persons with disabilities, in order to ensure that the benefits of digital
technologies are available to all women and girls; work towards closing digital
divides, including the gender digital divide, and ensure that programmes, services and
infrastructure are adaptable and suited to tackling different technological barriers; and
strive particularly to remove barriers and provide support for non -users and the least
connected in the context of addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and
financing with a gender perspective;
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Respect, protect and fulfil the rights of all women and girls with
disabilities, including by addressing all barriers that prevent or restrict their full, equal
and meaningful participation in decision-making and in the design, management,
resourcing and implementation of policies and programmes, including when it comes
to addressing poverty, strengthening institutions and financing with a gender
perspective, as well as health, quality education, distance learning, productive
employment and decent work, including remote work for women with disabilities,
and rehabilitation and other independent living support services and assistive
technologies that enable them to maximize their well-being and realize their
independence and autonomy, and ensure that their priorities and rights are fully
incorporated into policies and programmes, and developed in close consultation with
them;
(uu) Respect, protect and fulfil the rights of all Indigenous women and girls
by addressing the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and barriers they
face, including eliminating and preventing all forms of violence and poverty, food
insecurity, water scarcity, degradation of natural habitats and land degradation, forced
displacement, limited access to information and communications technologies,
infrastructure, financial services and education, and ensuring their access to health
care, public services, the Internet and digital services, quality and inclusive education,
and Indigenous women’s employment, decent work and economic resources,
including land and natural resources, and promoting their full, equal and meaningful
participation and leadership in the economy, and in decision-making processes at all
levels and in all areas, taking into account the free, prior and informe d consent of
Indigenous Peoples and their ancestral knowledge and practices, and recognizing
their cultural, social, economic and political contributions to climate change
mitigation and adaptation, environmental action and disaster resilience and the
preservation, revitalization and promotion of their languages, as well as the
transmission of their traditional, scientific and technical knowledge;
(vv) Recognize the significant contributions and leadership of migrant
women in their communities of origin, transit and destination in fostering inclusive
growth and sustainable development, including to address poverty, underlining that
poverty and underdevelopment are among the drivers of migration; and take
appropriate steps to promote their full, equal and m eaningful participation in the
development of local solutions and opportunities, and to recognize the importance of
protecting labour rights and a safe environment for women migrant workers in all
sectors, including, but not limited to, those in care and domestic work, including
through fair and ethical recruitment and the prevention of exploitation, and to facilitate
safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, as well as labour
mobility, and take steps to remove obstacles that may prevent the transparent, safe,
unrestricted and expeditious transfer of remittances of migrants to their countries of
origin or to any other countries, including, inter alia, by considering reducing
transaction costs and implementing woman-friendly remittance transfer, savings and
investment schemes, including diaspora investment schemes, as appropriate, and to
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