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and violence against all women and girls in digital contexts, including violence that
occurs through or is amplified by the use of technology;
21. Calls upon Member States, to ensure the continuation of education in
emergencies, that school closures are a last resort and that girls are protected and
supported in returning to school once it is deemed safe to do so, and in this regard
calls upon Member States and other relevant stakeholders to take the appropriate
measures in order to ensure proper training of teachers and other educational
professionals and the availability of and access to learning materials and remote
learning platforms to ensure learning continuity in emergencies, and to bridge the
digital divide, including barriers such as poor access to connectivity, lack of
affordability of connection and devices, digital illiteracy, limited digital skills,
absence of locally relevant digital content, and gender stereotypes and negative social
norms, in order to provide non-formal and distance learning opportunities, inter alia,
Internet, television and radio teaching alternatives, especially in developing
countries;
22. Encourages States to adopt, as appropriate, and implement inclusive
policies and programmes to promote technical and vocational training and skills
development and lifelong learning opportunities, including in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics and in information and communications technology, as
well as higher educational opportunities for women and girls, including those at risk
of or affected by child, early and forced marriage, so as to enable them to gain the
knowledge, attitudes and skills that they need to fulfil their full potential;
23. Urges States to address and eliminate the root causes of gender inequality,
including gender stereotypes and negative social norms, harmful attitudes, behaviours
and customs, and the socioeconomic drivers of violence and unequal power relations
in which women and girls are viewed as subordinate to men and boys, which condone
or perpetuate all forms of violence against women and girls and perpetuate child,
early and forced marriage, by developing and implementing, inter alia, robust and
comprehensive interventions addressing the gender inequality and the social norms
that underlie the practice, and awareness-raising programmes that provide accurate
information about the negative impact of child, early and forced marriage on women
and girls and society at large, including through social media, the Internet and
community communication and dissemination tools;
24. Urges Governments to promote, respect and protect the right to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, through
the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the
strengthening of health systems, including health information systems, that make
universally accessible and available quality, gender-responsive, adolescent-friendly
health services, sexual and reproductive healthcare services, information, education
and commodities, social protection, HIV and AIDS prevention, testing, treatment and
care, mental health and psychosocial support services, nutrition interventions and
prevention, treatment of and care for obstetric fistula and other obstetric
complications by providing the continuum of services, including family planning,
access to quality and safe maternal healthcare services to reduce the risks associated
with early and frequent pregnancy and childbirth, including prenatal, perinatal and
postnatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetr ic care and post-partum
care, as well as adequately supplied birthing facilities;
25. Also urges Governments to promote and protect the human rights of all
women and girls, including the right of women, and those girls who have been
subjected to child, early and forced marriage, to have control over and decide freely
and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and
reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, and to adopt and
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