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decision-making processes by adopting and implementing social and economic policies that
guarantee women full and equal access to quality education, including comprehensive
sexuality education, and training, and affordable and adequate public and social services, as
well as full and equal access to financial resources and decent work, and full and equal
rights to own and to have access to and control over land and other property, and
guaranteeing women’s and girls’ inheritance rights;
(d)
Removing gender bias and other forms of discrimination from the
administration of justice, and enhancing the capacity of law enforcement officials to deal
appropriately with all forms of violence against women and girls, including against
indigenous women and girls, by providing systematic gender sensitivity training, as
appropriate, for police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers, integrating
gender considerations into security sector reform initiatives, developing protocols and
guidelines, and enhancing or putting in place appropriate accountability measures for
adjudicators;
(e)
Engaging, educating, encouraging and supporting men and boys to take
responsibility for their behaviour and to become active partners in the prevention and
elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against all women and girls,
including indigenous women and girls, and to end the stigmatization of victims and
survivors of violence by encouraging a change in attitudes, perceptions of masculinity,
gender stereotypes and other norms and behaviour through the promotion of gender
equality;
(f)
Measuring the effectiveness of policies and programmes to prevent violence
against women and girls, including by carrying out regular evaluation and monitoring, and
ensuring that they do not put indigenous women and girls at any additional risk;
(g)
Ensuring free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth
registration, and further identifying and removing physical, administrative, procedural and
any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, particularly barriers faced by
indigenous women and girls, ensuring adequate training, and increasing, as needed, the
accessibility of birth registration facilities;
8.
Urges States to condemn strongly and publicly all forms of violence against
women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and to refrain from invoking any
custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its
elimination, including harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and
female genital mutilation;
9.
Also urges States to ensure the promotion and protection of the human rights
of all women and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in
accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their
review conferences, including through the development and enforcement of policies and
legal frameworks and the strengthening of health systems that make universally accessible
and available quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care services,
commodities, information and education, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods of
modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent
pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric
care, which will reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery,
safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law, and prevention and
treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and
reproductive cancers, and recognizing that human rights include the right to have control
over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including
sexual and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence;
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