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development, governance and decision-making, and create conditions that
facilitate women’s full participation and integration in the formal economy;
(r) Adopt, review and ensure the accelerated and effective
implementation of laws that criminalize violence against women and girls, as
well as comprehensive, multidisciplinary and gender-sensitive preventive,
protective and prosecutorial measures and services to eliminate and prevent all
forms of violence against all women and girls, in public and private spaces, as
well as harmful practices;
(s) Design and implement appropriate domestic policies at all levels
that aim to transform discriminatory social attitudes and gender stereotypes
and to promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
(t) Fully engage men and boys, including community leaders, as
strategic partners and allies in achieving gender equality and the empowerment
of women and girls and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and
violence against women and girls in both the public and private spheres,
design and implement national policies and programmes that address the role
and responsibility of men and boys and aim to ensure the eq ual sharing of
responsibilities between women and men in caregiving and domestic work,
transform with the aim to eliminate those social norms that condone violence
against women and girls and attitudes and social norms by which women and
girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys, including by understanding
and addressing the root causes of gender inequality, such as unequal power
relations, social norms, practices and stereotypes that perpetuate
discrimination against women and girls, and engage the m in efforts to promote
and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls for the
benefit of both women and men, girls and boys;
(u) Recognize the important role and contribution of rural women and
girls, as well as local communities, to food security, poverty eradication,
environmental sustainability and sustainable development and commit to
supporting their empowerment, and ensure rural women ’s full, equal and
effective participation in society, the economy and political decision -making;
(v) Formulate and implement, in collaboration with indigenous
peoples, in particular indigenous women and their organizations, policies and
programmes designed to promote capacity-building and strengthen their
leadership while recognizing the distinct and important role of indigenous
women and girls in sustainable development, and prevent and eliminate
discrimination and violence against indigenous women and girls, which has a
negative impact on their human rights and fundamental freedoms, to which
they are disproportionately vulnerable and which constitutes a major
impediment to indigenous women’s full, equal and effective participation in
society, the economy, and political decision-making;
(w) Take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, educational,
employment and other measures to protect and promote the rights of all
women and girls with disabilities, ensuring their full and effective
participation and inclusion in society, and to address the multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination they face;
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