A/HRC/RES/20/6 3. Welcomes the thematic priorities identified by the Working Group, namely, political and public life, economic and social life, family and cultural life, and health and safety; 4. Requests the Working Group to give special attention, in the discharge of its mandate, to the importance of the right to education as key to the empowerment of women and girls in all spheres as well as for ensuring equality and non-discrimination; 5. Also requests the Working Group, in the discharge of its mandate, to dedicate specific attention to good practices that have contributed to mobilizing society as a whole, including men and boys, in the elimination of discrimination against women; 6. Further requests the Working Group, in the discharge of its mandate, to offer support to States’ initiatives to address multiple forms of discrimination against women when implementing their obligations as State parties to relevant international human rights treaties with regard to civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, and related commitments where applicable; 7. Affirms that supporting the empowerment of women in all spheres is necessary to bring about equality; 8. Emphasizes the significant role that women play in economic development and in the eradication of poverty, and stresses the need to promote equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, to promote the recognition of the value of women’s unremunerated work, as well as to develop and promote policies that facilitate the reconciliation of employment and family responsibilities; 9. Calls upon States to ensure full representation and full and equal participation of women in political, social and economic decision-making as an essential condition for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and a critical factor in the eradication of poverty; 10. Calls upon all States to cooperate with and assist the Working Group in its task, to supply all necessary available information requested by it and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to its requests to visit their country to enable it to fulfil its mandate effectively; 11. Invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies and civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations, as well as the private sector, to cooperate fully with the Working Group in the fulfilment of its mandate; 12. Decides to continue consideration of this question in conformity with the annual programme of work of the Human Rights Council. [Adopted without a vote.] 31st meeting 5 July 2012 3