A/HRC/RES/38/5 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 5

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