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and commodities, thereby empowering women and girls as key actors and contributors to
and beneficiaries of sustainable development;
(e)
Promoting, supporting and facilitating the full, equal and meaningful
participation of women and girls in digital technology conceptualization, development and
implementation so that they can fully, safely and actively participate in decision-making,
policies and institutions at all levels;
(f)
Developing and implementing educational programmes and teaching
materials, including comprehensive sexuality education, based on full and accurate
information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving
capacities, with their meaningful participation, with appropriate direction and guidance
from parents and legal guardians, and with the active involvement of all relevant
stakeholders, in order to empower them to safely use and navigate digital technologies, to
modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to
eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision-making, communication and risk
reduction skills for the development of respectful relationships based on gender equality
and human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal
and non-formal education;
(g)
Ensuring that women and girls are able to exercise the right to freedom of
opinion and expression online and offline without discrimination, and do not experience
violence or threats of violence while exercising this right;
(h)
Enacting and enforcing the necessary legislative or other measures, in
cooperation with relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society
organizations, to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in digital
contexts;
(i)
Mainstreaming a gender perspective into their criminal justice systems and
into efforts to prevent and combat crime, including digital technology-mediated and
transnational organized crime, including by developing and implementing national criminal
justice legislation, policies and programmes that take into account the important role and
specific needs of women and girls and by promoting gender-specific measures in crime
prevention and protection policies;
11.
Also calls upon States to take immediate and effective action to respond to all
forms of violence against women and girls, including in digital contexts, and to protect all
victims and survivors by:
(a)
Holding perpetrators to account and combating impunity for all forms of
violence, including violence used to intimidate women and girls who are exercising the
right to freedom of opinion and expression;
(b)
Ensuring that legislation allows for the timely and effective investigation,
prosecution, sanction and redress of violence against women and girls in digital contexts;
(c)
Publicly condemning all forms of violence against women and girls through
media and information campaigns and providing women and girls with effective remedies
for violence that takes place in digital contexts, including remedies that protect their
privacy and avoid their secondary victimization;
(d)
Ensuring 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 Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review
conferences, including through the development and enforcement of policies and legal
frameworks, and strengthening health systems that make quality comprehensive sexual and
reproductive health-care services, commodities, information and education universally
accessible and available, including in digital contexts, 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
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