A/HRC/50/25 comprehensive human rights-based approach that is child rights-centred, while being gender-responsive and intersectional is crucial to ensuring a sustainable environment for girls’ and young women’s activism. As told to the Working Group during the consultations it held: “Authorities should support the voices of young activists more; instead of silencing or minimizing them, they should be used as platforms to empower, generate a change.” B. Recommendations 75. States should take all appropriate measures to create safe and enabling spaces for girl and young women activists, where they can exercise their activism and express their views freely, equally, fully and meaningfully on all matters of relevance to them. In order to achieve this, States should: (a) Put in place effective protection systems to safeguard girl and young women activists against any form of discrimination, intimidation or reprisal, whether in private or public life, and ensure that protection measures are not used to diminish the scope of their activism; (b) Encourage and provide support and training to the families, caregivers, communities, educators and educational institutions of girl and young women activists, as well as the judiciary, government officials and other relevant professionals, so that they can fulfil their role in promoting, protecting and empowering all girls and young activists to exercise their autonomy and agency and exercise their civil and political rights safely; (c) Support movement-building led by girl and young women activists and allow them to pursue and strengthen their activism by investing in the formation of girlled and young feminist networks and associations, and by creating participatory structures and mechanisms whereby they can influence policy and norm-making processes; (d) Ensure that the national legal framework recognizes and enables girl and young women activists to act freely and safely without discrimination. That in particular includes: (i) Eliminating laws and practices that perpetuate discrimination within the family, the community and institutions, to enable girl and young women activists to exercise their autonomy and agency, respecting their age and maturity; (ii) Removing age-based discriminatory legal barriers for girls and young women to the exercise of their civil and political rights, ensuring that any restrictions are in conformity with international human rights law and considering lowering the age for registration of associations and for opening bank accounts; (iii) Adopting comprehensive national laws and policies that respect, protect and fulfil girls’ and young women’s rights to participate in public and political life, to freedom of expression, association and assembly, and to access to information, integrating gender- and age-sensitive and intersectional approaches that address all their diversity; (iv) Adopting and implementing laws and policies that particularly target removing the inherent obstacles to their activism, including eliminating harmful practices and stereotypes, gender-based violence, barriers to access to quality education, taboos and restrictions on sexual and reproductive health information, goods and services, including contraception and abortion care, and lifting the disproportionate burden of domestic responsibilities; (v) Introducing and ensuring the effective implementation of legislation and policies especially aimed at promoting the activism of girl and young women activists by allocating human, technical and financial resources; 18