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32. Calls upon States to recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s and girls’
disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work, including by making efforts
to change gender roles in domestic work and care responsibilities, including by
adopting measures to reduce and redistribute girls’ disproportionate share of unpaid
care and domestic work, and tackle the feminization of poverty, which is exacerbated
during emergencies, and to address all forms of discrimination and gender inequality,
including gender stereotypes and negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours and
unequal power relations in which women and girls are viewed as subordinate to men
and boys, that are at the root of these imbalances;
33. Also calls upon States to develop and implement, in consultation with and
with the full, effective, equal and meaningful participation of women and, as
appropriate, girls, and integrate into humanitarian responses, from the early stages of
humanitarian emergencies, measures to address the increased vulnerability of women
and girls, particularly adolescent girls, to child, early and forced marriage, and to
protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and exploitation
during humanitarian emergencies, situations of forced displacement, armed conflict,
disasters and public health emergencies, including by ensuring their access to such
services as health, education and child protection, while also strengthening follow -up
and interventions to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage in
humanitarian settings, as well as to address the needs of those affected and to ensure
that the provision of essential services during emergencies respects the rights of girls
and women and is addressed in national response plans, including life skills
education, gender-sensitive mental health and psychosocial support services, as well
as health and information services, including sexual and reproductive healthcare
services;
34. Urges States to recognize and promote awareness of the disproportionate
and distinct effects of climate change, environmental degradation and disasters and
water scarcity on women and girls, in particular those with disabilities and those
facing violence, discrimination and displacement, harmful practices, including child,
early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, and insecurity of land tenure,
income and food, ensure that policies and programmes reflect these impacts, and
encourages States to support and fund research and analysis to better understand these
impacts on women and girls in relation to child, early and forced marriage, and to
take targeted action to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacities of all women
and girls, including systems and services, including in cities and tropical, arctic,
coastal, mountainous, rural and remote areas;
35. Calls upon States to take a comprehensive, rights-based, age- and genderresponsive, survivor-centred and multisectoral approach that takes into account
linkages with other harmful practices in the prevention of and response to child, early
and forced marriage in the context of multidimensional challenges, such as armed
conflict, humanitarian situations, climate change and natural disasters, and to pay
particular attention to the specific needs of all women and girls, in particular those in
vulnerable situations and those experiencing various forms of violence,
discrimination, stigmatization, exclusion and inequalities, in terms of, inter alia,
access to essential services such as safe spaces and shelters, access to social work
services and family reunification, as well as access to other social protection services,
healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive healthcare services and mental
health and psychosocial support services, safe and affordable drinking water and
adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, menstrual health and hygiene,
as well as access to education, including early childhood education and lifelong
learning, and to timely registration of births and marriages;
36. Also calls upon States to pay particular attention to the specific needs of
children, especially adolescent girls, who are more likely to be subjected to child,
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