43. The Commission recalls General Assembly resolution
70/163 of 17 December 2015 and encourages the
secretariat to continue its consideration of how
to enhance the participation, including at the
sixty-second session of the Commission, of national
human rights institutions that are fully compliant
with the principles relating to the status of national
institutions for the promotion and protection of
human rights (Paris Principles), where they exist,
in compliance with the rules of procedure of the
Economic and Social Council.
of policies and programmes that promote and
protect women’s right to work and rights at work
in global value chains.
41. The Commission recognizes its primary role for the
follow-up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, in which its work is grounded, and stresses
that it is critical to address and integrate gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls
throughout national, regional and global reviews
of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and
to ensure synergies between the follow-up to the
Beijing Platform for Action and the gender-responsive follow-up to the 2030 Agenda.
44. The Commission calls upon the United Nations
system entities, within their respective mandates,
to support States, upon their request, in their efforts
to achieve women’s economic empowerment in the
changing world of work.
42. The Commission calls upon Governments to
strengthen, as appropriate, the authority and
capacity of national mechanisms for promoting
gender equality and the empowerment of women
and girls, at all levels, which should be placed at the
highest possible level of government, with sufficient
funding, and to mainstream a gender perspective
across all relevant national and local institutions,
including labour, economic and financial government
agencies, in order to ensure that national planning,
decision-making, policy formulation and implementation, budgeting processes and institutional
structures contribute to women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.
45. The Commission calls upon UN-Women to continue
to play a central role in promoting gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls and in
supporting Governments and national women’s
machineries, upon their request, in coordinating
the United Nations system and in mobilizing civil
society, the private sector, employers’ organizations
and trade unions and other relevant stakeholders, at
all levels, in support of the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action and the gender-responsive
implementation of the 2030 Agenda towards
women’s economic empowerment in the changing
world of work.
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