A/HRC/38/46 (j) Establish parity, including through temporary special measures, to ensure equal representation of women in public, political and economic decision-making and leadership; (k) equal pay; Develop strategies to increase women’s access to decent work and achieve (l) Ensure social protection floors for care work, which would facilitate the participation of women equally with men in economic and social activities; (m) Institute measures to combat discriminatory social norms and harmful stereotypes about women’s and girls’ bodies, roles and capabilities. 91. The Working Group recommends that the Human Rights Council enable it to implement its mandate with the support it requires in terms of resources and cooperation with other entities, including regional mechanisms, national human rights institutions and local women’s rights organizations, and assistance to increase its visibility and outreach to grass-roots actors who might not have access to the international system. 92. The Working Group recommends that the United Nations system: (a) Maintain existing international law guarantees of women’s human rights, their right to equality in all fields of life and their right not to be discriminated against, and resist all attempts to derogate from them, including by conservative or religious lobbies; (b) Reassert the validity of the terminology relating to gender issues and counter its misuse; (c) Develop an integrated policy framework that reflects the indivisibility of all rights and the interdependency of ending discrimination in all fields of women’s life; (d) Ensure that women human rights defenders and grass-roots organizations have effective protection and proper access to United Nations forums in the context of shrinking space for civil society; (e) Strengthen cooperation and synergies and identify system breakdowns, and recommend how to overcome them, within the context of the current United Nations reform processes, inviting all concerned entities to participate in a selfquestioning and accountability exercise on how to best serve the cause of women’s rights; (f) Continue working towards gender parity at the United Nations and make commitments to mainstream gender a reality; (g) Ensure that the Working Group can contribute meaningfully to the work of the Commission on the Status of Women, including by institutionalizing the Working Group’s formal reporting before the Commission and by participating in the Expert Group Meeting that precedes each Commission session; (h) Ensure that the special procedures genuinely mainstream women’s rights, while recognizing that a growing number of mandate holders have devoted full reports to the situation of women’s rights in relation to their mandate; (i) Further institutionalize communication and collaboration between the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Working Group, recognizing current efforts to have at least one of their annual sessions overlap, thus enabling more meaningful and systematic exchanges; (j) Convene a formal, high-level meeting gathering all mechanisms and entities working on women’s rights at the international and regional levels to explore further ideas for collaboration and for the effective promotion of women’s human rights and the elimination of discrimination against women and girls. Such a meeting could be convened by UN-Women, with the support of OHCHR. 20

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