A/HRC/47/38 (f) Take steps to ensure that health service providers undertake their professional duties in accordance with human rights and comply with their ethical obligations. 4. Ensure the participation of women and girls and promote male accountability 79. The Working Group recommends that States: (a) Increase the representation and effective participation of women and girls in decision-making processes at all levels and ensure gender parity, including in crisis prevention, management and recovery processes; (b) Systematically engage diverse women’s rights organizations and feminist organizations in the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and continual improvement of law, policy and practice relating to sexual and reproductive health and in the identification and removal of barriers; (c) Build participatory processes that are empowering, inclusive, accessible and non-discriminatory, with special attention given to women and girls who have been disproportionately affected by crisis, including in disenfranchised and marginalized populations, such as migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons; (d) Integrate gender, age, disability and intercultural perspectives into all policies and practices and promote leadership by women and young people; (e) Promote male engagement and accountability to address pervasive sexism, misogyny, violence and toxic masculinity and to promote the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls. 5. Push back against conservative and anti-human rights ideologies and misinformation 80. The Working Group recommends that States: (a) Actively push back against conservative religious and racialized political ideologies that undermine gender equality; (b) Oppose misinformation and religious positions that subvert the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls; (c) Ensure that international aid and assistance, including humanitarian assistance, is provided and operationalized in accordance with human rights standards and prioritizes respect for the human rights of women and girls, without harmful restrictions; (d) Support the United Nations system in countering religious ideologies opposing the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls and ensure that all United Nations processes are coordinated and conducted with full respect for those rights; (e) Refrain from using political and financial influence with States and nonState actors to undermine and retrogress the rights of women and girls by leading or supporting ideological agendas that are antithetical to human rights norms. 22

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