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(g)
Working towards reducing poverty by, inter alia, granting assistance to
families in difficult life situations and increasing the earning power of all adult members of
economically deprived families;
(h)
Providing and promoting the means to facilitate compatibility between labour
force participation and parental responsibilities, especially for single-parent households
with young children, and paying special attention to the needs of widows and orphans
through means including health insurance and social security, cash and in-kind transfer
programmes, day-care centres and facilities for breastfeeding mothers within the work
premises, kindergartens, part-time jobs, paid parental leave, paid maternity leave, flexible
work schedules and reproductive and child health-care services;
(i)
Strengthening or, if necessary, establishing relevant national agencies or
governmental bodies responsible for the implementation and monitoring of family policies;
21.
Calls upon States and encourages non-governmental organizations and
community organizations concerned to develop innovative ways to provide more effective
assistance to families and the individuals within them who may be affected by specific
problems, such as extreme poverty, chronic unemployment, illness, domestic and sexual
violence, dowry payments, drug or alcohol dependence, incest, child abuse, neglect or
abandonment;
22.
Recognizes the important role of civil society, including research institutes
and academia, in advocacy, promotion, research and policymaking and, as appropriate,
evaluation of family policy development and capacity-building;
23.
Also recognizes that the family plays a key role in social development, and as
such should be strengthened and attention paid to the rights, capabilities and responsibilities
of its members, and invites States, the organizations of the United Nations system and all
other relevant stakeholders to take into account the role of the family as a contributor to
sustainable development, and the need to strengthen family policy development in their
ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals;
24.
Encourages States to give due consideration to the role and status of the
family in the context of the ongoing negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda,
and invites States to consider mainstreaming the promotion of family-oriented policies as a
cross-cutting issue in the proposed goals and targets of the post-2015 agenda;
25.
Invites States to consider mainstreaming the promotion of family-oriented
policies as a cross-cutting issue in national development plans and programmes;
26.
Highlights the need for continued inter-agency and regional cooperation on
family issues in order to generate greater awareness of this subject among the governing
bodies of the United Nations system;
27.
Activities;
Encourages States to support the United Nations Trust Fund on Family
28.
Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the treaty
bodies, relevant special procedure mandate holders and other relevant international and
regional human rights mechanisms, within their respective mandates and competence, to
pay due attention in their work to the implementation by States of their obligations under
relevant provisions of international human rights law to provide protection and support to
the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society;
29.
Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the impact of the
implementation by States of their obligations under relevant provisions of international
human rights law with regard to the protection of the family, and on the contribution of
families in realizing the right to an adequate standard of living for their members,
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