A/HRC/RES/35/18 inequality and discrimination, including violence against women and girls, is borne by society as a whole, and therefore emphasizing that men and boys, by taking responsibility themselves as agents and beneficiaries of change and by working alongside women and girls, are essential in the achievement of gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and to efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence, Reaffirming that the human rights of women include a woman’s right to have control over and to decide freely and responsibly on matters related to her sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, and that equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including full respect for the dignity, integrity and autonomy of the person, require mutual respect, consent and shared responsibility for sexual behaviour and its consequences, Recognizing the major contributions made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’ and youth-led organizations, to the development of good practices that place the interests, needs and visions of women and girls on local, national, regional and international agendas, including the 2030 Agenda, and recognizing the importance of having an open, inclusive and transparent engagement with civil society in the implementation of measures on the empowerment of women and girls, Recognizing also that the identification and the sharing of good practices in the eradication of discrimination against women in law and in practice illustrate the ways and means to implement human rights most effectively in diverse contexts; however, they comprise a complex, multifaceted endeavour involving a wide range of interrelated rights and cannot be considered in isolation from the breadth of actions and actors involved in processes of social change, Taking note of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, which stressed that addressing adverse norms and all forms of discrimination, ensuring legal protections and repealing discriminatory laws and regulations, including those related to families, is critical to achieving women’s economic empowerment, 1. Calls upon States to consider ratifying or acceding to, as a matter of particular priority, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto, to limit the extent of any reservations and to formulate them as precisely and as narrowly as possible to ensure that no reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, to implement its provisions through appropriate legislation and policies, as applicable, and to take into due account recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, other States during the universal periodic review and other relevant human rights mechanisms, with a view to ensuring the realization of women’s human rights; 2. Takes note of the report of the Working Group,4 and calls upon States to take steps to promote reforms and implement legal frameworks and policies directed to achieving gender equality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women 4 A/HRC/35/29. 3