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(cc) Recognize, resource and support programmes that advance gender
equality and women’s rights in all areas of economic activities, including
fisheries and aquaculture, to address food security and nutrition, and
meaningfully facilitate women’s contributions to small-scale and artisan
fisheries and aquaculture, commercial fisheries, and the use and care of oceans
and seas;
(dd) Ensure non-discriminatory access for women of all ages to genderresponsive, universally accessible, available, affordable, sustainable and highquality services and infrastructure, including health care, safe drinking water
and sanitation, transport, energy, housing, agricultural technology, financial
and legal services, and information and communications technologies;
(ee) Invest in closing the gender gap in information and communications
technologies by making them affordable and accessible, including as regards
access to broadband as a tool for the empowerment of women and girls and the
exercise of their full range of human rights, access to information, access to
markets, networking and increased opportunities;
(ff) Promote universal social protection across the life cycle, including
for older women, that gives women and girls protection against risks and
vulnerabilities and promotes their social inclusion and full enjoyment of all
human rights;
(gg) Recognize that caregiving is a critical societal function and
therefore emphasize the need to value, reduce and redistribute unpaid care
work by prioritizing social protection policies, including accessible and
affordable social services, including care services for children, persons with
disabilities, older persons and persons living with HIV and AIDS, and all
others in need of care; the development of infrastructure, including access to
environmentally sound time- and energy-saving technologies; employment
policies, including family-friendly policies with maternity and paternity leave
and benefits; and the promotion of the equal sharing of responsibilities and
chores between men and women in caregiving and domestic work to reduce
the domestic work burden of women and girls and to change the attitudes that
reinforce the division of labour based on gender;
(hh) Recognize the family as a contributor to sustainable development,
including in the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals
for women and girls, that gender equality and women’s empowerment improve
the well-being of the family, and in this regard stress the need for elaborating
and implementing family policies aimed at achieving gender equality and
women’s empowerment and at enhancing the full participation of women in
society;
(ii) Promote and protect effectively the human rights and fundamental
freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, especially those
of women and children, and address international migration through
international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a
comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and
responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and
protecting the human rights of all migrants, and avoiding approaches that
might aggravate their vulnerability;
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