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and girls, taking into consideration the good practices identified in the four thematic reports
of the Working Group;5
3.
Calls upon States:
(a)
To repeal all laws that exclusively or disproportionately criminalize actions
or behaviours of women and girls, and laws that discriminate against them, based on any
grounds, including any custom, tradition or cultural or religious consideration contrary to
the obligation to eliminate discrimination against women and girls;
(b)
To take measures to ensure that international obligations on gender equality
and non-discrimination are incorporated at all levels of the legal framework;
(c)
To consider reviewing all proposed and existing legislation on the basis of
respective international obligations, with a gender-responsive perspective, involving, when
necessary, independent experts, women human rights defenders, women’s and girls’
community-based organizations, feminist groups and youth-led organizations, and other
relevant stakeholders;
(d)
To promote laws and programmes that facilitate good practices relating to
women’s and girls’ empowerment and to the elimination of discrimination against them by
conducting systematic, comprehensive and regular gender analysis of the law and
programmes and its potential impact;
4.
Urges States to take all appropriate measures to modify social and cultural
patterns of conduct with a view to preventing and eliminating in the public and private
spheres patriarchal and gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours,
and unequal power relations that view women and girls as subordinate to men and boys and
that underlie and perpetuate discrimination and violence against women and girls;
5.
Calls upon States to take steps:
(a)
To remove barriers, whether political, legal, cultural, economic, institutional
or religious, preventing women’s full, equal and effective participation in leadership and
political and other decision-making positions;
(b)
To take temporary special measures to support women’s participation in and
election to government at all levels;
(c)
To ensure gender-responsive mainstreaming of policymaking processes,
including public financial management;
(d)
To provide training on a rights-based gender analysis for duty holders in all
spheres and meaningful collaboration with civil society, including women’s and
community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’
and youth-led organizations;
6.
Urges States to guarantee women’s equal enjoyment of civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, to take all appropriate steps to eliminate discrimination
by any actors, State or non-State, by ensuring equal opportunity through temporary positive
measures, where appropriate, including accommodation for gender-specific needs and equal
enjoyment of benefits, by recognizing, reducing and redistributing women’s
disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work and by taking steps to facilitate
the transition of informal workers, including those engaged in informal paid care and
domestic work, to the formal economy, and to extend rights to non-discrimination, paid
parental leave and childcare provisions;
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A/HRC/23/50, A/HRC/26/39, A/HRC/29/40 and A/HRC/32/44.