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unprecedented opportunities for States to build a better, inclusive, accessible and sustainable
world of work that can benefit from the untapped potential of persons with disabilities;
12.
Expresses deep concern that inequalities are widening and there are not enough
jobs, including quality jobs, and emphasizes that full, productive and freely chosen
employment and decent work for young people play an important role in their empowerment
and can contribute to, inter alia, the prevention of extremism, terrorism and social, economic
and political instability, thus contributing to sustainable development and peace;
13.
Stresses the fundamental importance of equal opportunities, education, and
technical and vocational training, including the use of new and emerging digital technologies,
especially artificial intelligence, and that lifelong learning opportunities and guidance for all,
including for women, young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, are
necessary for the realization of the right to work;
14.
Encourages States to effectively implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 8 on promoting sustained, inclusive
and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all,
and its targets;
15.
Stresses that the Sustainable Development Goals and the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development promote
inclusive and sustained economic growth, higher levels of productivity and technological
innovation, and encourage entrepreneurship and job creation, which can be effective
measures to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, forced labour, contemporary forms of
slavery and trafficking in persons, and that to ensure that no one is left behind, bearing these
targets in mind, the goal is to achieve full, productive and freely chosen employment and
decent work for all women and men by 2030;
16.
Recognizes that employment should be a central objective of economic and
social policies at the national, regional and international levels for the sustainable eradication
of poverty and for providing an adequate standard of living, and emphasizes in that regard
the importance of relevant and inclusive social protection measures, including social
protection floors;
17.
Also recognizes the fundamental importance of international cooperation,
including through technical cooperation, capacity-building and the exchange of relevant
lessons learned and good practices, in advancing efforts towards the full realization of the
right to work through inclusive, sustainable economic growth, full, productive and freely
chosen employment and decent work for all;
18.
Calls upon States to put in place cohesive and comprehensive policies and to
take the legislative and administrative measures necessary for the full realization of the right
to work for all, including women, by, inter alia, considering undertaking policy commitments
and measures to obtain full, productive and freely chosen employment and decent work for
all, including through the establishment, where appropriate, of institutions for that purpose
and by further strengthening tools, such as job services and social dialogue mechanisms,
while paying continuous attention to professional and technical training and initiatives to
foster small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives and start-ups, including those that
are owned by women, and considering investing in infrastructure, services and social
protection systems to allow for and to promote equitable sharing of care responsibilities
between men and women;
19.
Highlights the vital role of the private sector in generating new investments,
job opportunities and financing for development and in advancing efforts towards the full
realization of the right to work and the promotion of inclusive, sustained economic growth,
full, productive and freely chosen employment and decent work for all, notes the multi-year
strategy of the United Nations Global Compact to drive business awareness and action in
support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda by 2030, and also notes the need to promote the implementation of the Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Women’s Empowerment Principles
established by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women, as applicable;
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