E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 well as quality, affordable and universally accessible health care and services, in particular primary health care; 7. Calls upon States to provide adequate safety nets and strengthen Statebased and community-based support systems, as an integral part of social policy, in order to enable women living in poverty to withstand adverse economic environments and preserve their livelihood, assets and revenues in times of crisis; Also calls upon States to fulfil their obligation to ensure full and equal 8. access to education for girls and women, recognizing that investing in women’s education is the key element in achieving social equality, higher productivity and social returns in terms of health, lower infant mortality and the reduced need for high fertility; Reaffirms the Dakar Framework for Action on education for all, 46 and 9. commits to ensure by 2015 access to and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality and to achieve gender equality in education by 2015, and decides to strengthen policies aimed at ensuring full and equal access of women and girls to education at all levels through lifelong learning, including adult and longdistance education and training, as well as to eradicate illiteracy in order to promote women’s economic empowerment; 10. Urges States: (a) To continue to strengthen policies relevant for women’s economic empowerment aimed at addressing inequality affecting women and girls in access to and achievement in education at all levels, in particular to eliminate inequalities related to age, poverty, geographical location, language, ethnicity, religion and disability, adopting measures to promote non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive education that is free of gender-based stereotypes and broader career choices, scaling up strategies to encourage and support girls’ participation in science and technology, promoting educational programmes in which girls are prepared to participate in decision-making at all levels, including in the economic field, and implementing initiatives to translate educational achievements of women into employment opportunities; (b) To enhance the implementation of policies that also impact on women’s economic empowerment related to access to education across the life cycle, use of information and communication technologies in programmes for adult education and vocational training, and eradication of illiteracy; 11. Encourages efforts to provide education in humanitarian emergency situations, including to enhance women’s empowerment; 12. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the relevant International Labour Organization conventions; 13. Also calls upon States to adopt and apply effective measures, including legislative measures, to ensure the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for equal work or work of equal value, to promote equality of opportunity and treatment among men and women in respect of __________________ 46 10-30576 See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000). 21