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7.
Encourages States to prioritize the allocation of funds, both internationally
and domestically, to support women’s full and equal enjoyment of all human rights,
including by mainstreaming gender equality in the process of conceiving, planning,
approving, executing, analysing and ordering budgets, to ensure that their legal and policy
commitments bear results, and to implement active and sustained measures to promote
good practices in the eradication of discrimination and the promotion of women’s and girls’
empowerment, including measures focused on attitudinal and behavioural change that
cultivate an environment in which good practices in achieving gender equality in law and
practice can thrive;
8.
Calls upon States:
(a)
To ensure the equal enjoyment of girls and boys to quality education at all
levels and the elimination of discriminatory laws and practices, school-related gender-based
violence and gender stereotypes that prevent girls from having access to, completing and
continuing their education, and to provide incentive mechanisms to this end;
(b)
To develop and implement programmes that specifically aim to prevent and
eliminate gender disparities in enrolment and gender-based bias and stereotypes in
education systems, curricula and materials, whether derived from any discriminatory
practices, social or cultural attitudes or legal and economic circumstances;
(c)
To consider adopting good practices to support substantive equality within
families through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, especially education and public
awareness, including through the media and online, and the incorporation of curricula on
women’s rights into teacher training courses, including evidence-based, comprehensive
sexuality education and gender-based violence prevention;
9.
Also calls upon States to implement policies to engage, educate, encourage
and support men and boys:
(a)
To take an active part and become strategic partners and allies, alongside
women and girls, in the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination and
violence against women and girls;
(b)
To be agents and positive role models for addressing discrimination and
gender inequality and to promote respectful relationships and equal sharing of work and
family responsibilities;
(c)
To refrain from and condemn all forms of discrimination and violence against
women and girls;
(d)
To increase their understanding of the harmful effects of discrimination and
violence on the victim/survivor;
(e)
To take responsibility and be held accountable for their behaviour, including
sexual and reproductive behaviour, and behaviour that perpetuates and normalizes
patriarchal attitudes and gender stereotypes that underlie discrimination and violence
against women and girls;
10.
Further calls upon States to ensure access to justice and accountability
mechanisms and remedies for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aimed
at preventing and eliminating discrimination against women and girls, taking into account
the multiple, intersecting and aggravating forms of discrimination, including by informing
women and girls about their rights under relevant laws, training law enforcement officers
and monitoring how they address discrimination and gender inequality, improving the legal
system and taking steps to remove all barriers to access to legal counselling, assistance and
remedies;
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