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responsible sexual behaviour; raise awareness about, prevent and treat sexually
transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and sexual violence and abuse; and
counsel adolescents on avoiding unwanted and early pregnancies;
(g) Design and implement programmes to provide social services and
support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them
to continue and complete their education;
(h) Give particular attention to developing and improving access to improved
and new technologies and to safe and affordable drugs and treatments to meet
women’s health needs, including cardiopulmonary diseases, hypertension,
osteoporosis, breast, cervical and ovarian cancer and family planning and
contraceptive methods, for both women and men.
80. Develop and use frameworks, guidelines and other practical tools and
indicators to accelerate gender mainstreaming, including gender-based research,
analytical tools and methodologies, training, case studies, statistics and information.
81. (a) Provide equal opportunities and favourable conditions for women of all
ages and backgrounds on equal terms with men by encouraging their entry into
politics and their participation at all levels;
(b) Encourage the nomination of more women candidates, inter alia, through
political parties, quotas or measurable goals or other appropriate means for election
to parliaments and other legislative structures, to increase their share and
contribution in the formulation of public policy;
(c) Develop and maintain consultative processes and mechanisms, in
partnership with women’s organizations, including non-governmental organizations
and community groups, to ensure that all women, with particular attention to those
who face particular barriers to their participation in public life, are fully involved in
and informed about decisions that impact their lives.
82. (a) Promote and protect the rights of women workers and take action to
remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypical attitudes to gender
equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working
conditions; occupational segregation and harassment; discrimination in social
protection benefits; women’s occupational health and safety; unequal career
opportunities and inadequate sharing, by men, of family responsibilities;
(b) Promote programmes to enable women and men to reconcile their work
and family responsibilities and to encourage men to share equally with women
household and child-care responsibilities;
(c) Develop or strengthen policies and programmes to support the multiple
roles of women in contributing to the welfare of the family in its various forms,
which acknowledge the social significance of maternity and motherhood, parenting,
the role of parents and legal guardians in the upbringing of children and caring for
other family members. Such policies and programmes should also promote shared
responsibility of parents, women and men and society as a whole in this regard;
(d) Design, implement and promote family friendly policies and services,
including affordable, accessible and quality care services for children and other
dependants, parental and other leave schemes and campaigns to sensitize public
opinion and other relevant actors on equal sharing of employment and family
responsibilities between women and men;
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