A/HRC/RES/41/17 empowerment and independence, and equal access to economic and productive resources, including ownership and the control of land, natural and other productive resources, property, inheritance, financial services, including microfinance, equal opportunities for women for full and productive employment and decent work, and equal pay for work of equal value, legal advice and support, vocational training, information and communications technology and markets, and by removing barriers to their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in local, national, regional and international economies, Recognizing the major contribution made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders, social partners such as labour unions and employer organizations and girls’ and youth-led organizations, in promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls and the fulfilment of their right to decent work and education, and recognizing also the importance of having open, inclusive and transparent engagement with civil society in the development and implementation of measures promoting gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, Recognizing also the critical contribution of families in eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment and domestic violence, by, inter alia, providing for a supportive environment for the empowerment of all women and girls, including by raising awareness about the human rights of women and girls, and that family-oriented policies can play an important role in preventing and responding to all forms of violence, 1. Expresses outrage at the persistence and pervasiveness of all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide; 2. Condemns in the strongest possible terms all forms of violence against women and girls, including in the world of work; 3. eliminated; Recognizes that domestic violence is not a private family matter and must be 4. Expresses deep concern that all forms of discrimination, intimidation, harassment and violence, including in the world of work, prevent women and girls from fully enjoying their human rights and fundamental freedoms, which hinders their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in economic, social, cultural, civil and political spheres, and is an impediment to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls; 5. Recognizes the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the right to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work, which includes, inter alia, having access to safe and healthy working conditions; 6. Reaffirms that human rights include the right to have control over and to decide freely and responsibly on matters relating to sexuality and to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence, including full respect for dignity, integrity and bodily autonomy; 7. Stresses the need to address multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, which place women and girls at greater risk of exploitation, violence and abuse, and to implement measures to prevent and eliminate gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours that cause or perpetuate gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls; 8. Recognizes that a proactive and reactive multipronged approach, working with all relevant parties, is required to eliminate violence in the world of work, including education, training and media campaigns and promoting respect, accountability and nondiscrimination in the world of work, and that actions to prevent and respond to violence in the world of work can have a positive impact in reducing violence against women and girls outside the world of work; 9. Encourages national legislative authorities and political parties to adopt codes of conduct and to establish reporting mechanisms, or revise existing ones, indicating that they 4