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perspective. The Commission recalls the Paris Agreement adopted under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 19
6.
The Commission reiterates that the 2030 Agenda needs to be implemented in a
comprehensive manner, reflecting its universal, integrated and indivisible nature,
taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development,
and respecting each country’s policy space and leadership while remaining consistent
with relevant international law and commitments, including by developing cohesive
sustainable development strategies to achieve gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls. The Commission affirms that Governments have the primary
responsibility for the follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda at the national,
regional and global levels with regard to progress made.
7.
The Commission further recalls the Declaration on the Right to Development, 20
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 21 and the New
York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. 22
8.
The Commission acknowledges the important role played by regional
conventions, instruments and initiatives, and their follow-up mechanisms in their
respective regions and countries, in the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls, including by addressing poverty and
strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.
9.
The Commission reaffirms that the promotion and protection of, and respect for,
the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all women and girls, including the
right to development, which are universal, indivisible, interdependen t and
interrelated, are crucial for the full and equal participation of women and girls in
society and for women’s economic empowerment and should be mainstreamed into
all policies and programmes. It also reaffirms the need to take measures to ensure that
every person is entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic, social,
cultural and political development and that equal attention and urgent consideration
should be given to the promotion, protection and full realization of civil, political ,
economic, social and cultural rights, in particular by addressing poverty and
strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.
10. The Commission recognizes the importance of relevant International Labour
Organization standards related to the realization of women’s right to work and rights
at work. It recalls the decent work agenda of the International Labour Organization
and the International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and
Rights at Work and notes the importance of their effective implementation.
11. The Commission recognizes that progress in achieving gender equality, the
empowerment of all women and girls and the full enjoyment of their human rights
has been held back owing to the persistence of poverty. It acknowledges that the
Beijing Platform for Action identifies that poverty affecting women and girls is
directly related to, inter alia, the absence of economic opportunities and autonomy,
lack of access to economic resources, including credit, land ow nership and
inheritance, lack of access to quality education and support services and women ’s
limited participation in the decision-making process due to, inter alia, systematic
failures that may lead to exclusion and discrimination.
12. The Commission acknowledges that multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination and marginalization are obstacles to the achievement of gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in addressing poverty and
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See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
General Assembly resolution 41/128, annex.
General Assembly resolution 61/295, annex.
General Assembly resolution 71/1.
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