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(b)
To respect, protect and fulfil the right to liberty as a human right, widely
recognized in international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, inter alia by reviewing and
amending legislation and implementing gender-specific interventions;
(c)
To remove barriers, whether political, legal, practical, structural, cultural,
economic, institutional or resulting from the misuse of religion, preventing the full, equal,
effective and meaningful participation of women and girls in all fields, including
participation of women in leadership at all levels of decision-making in public and private
sectors, and to actively promote diversity in leadership and an inclusive, enabling leadership
culture;
(d)
To modify social and cultural patterns of conduct with a view to preventing
and eliminating in the public and private spheres, including in digital contexts, patriarchal
and gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours and unequal power
relations that view women and girls as subordinate to men and boys, that underlie and
perpetuate discrimination and violence against women and girls and that may lead to the
deprivation of liberty of women and girls not only in detention facilities but also in other
public and private institutions, private homes and community spaces, and in situations of
conflict and humanitarian emergencies;
(e)
To support substantive gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights,
including within families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, including for men
and boys, especially education and public awareness-raising, including in the media and
online, through the incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher
training courses, including on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and by
ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education;
6.
Calls upon States to implement policies and actions directed:
(a)
To collect, share, positively recognize, implement and widely publicize good
practices to prevent discrimination against women and girls and counter gender stereotyping,
negative portrayals and the exploitation of women and girls, and to promote and support the
implementation of awareness programmes to combat gender stereotypes and gender-based
discrimination in all settings as part of their efforts to diminish factors that are used to
facilitate and justify the deprivation of women’s and girls’ liberty;
(b)
To ensure access to justice and accountability mechanisms and timely and
effective remedies for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aimed at
preventing and eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls,
in all contexts, including by informing women and girls about their rights under relevant laws
and by improving legal infrastructure, including, as appropriate, through gender- and ageresponsive training for police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers and other
relevant authorities and officials, and removing all barriers to access to legal counselling,
assistance and remedies;
7.
Urges States to promote and protect sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme
of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome
documents of their review conferences, and to respect, protect and fulfil the right of every
woman to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on all matters relating to
her sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and
violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and
enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect bodily autonomy
and guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services and evidencebased information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods
of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent
pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth assistance and emergency obstetric
care, safe abortion where not against national law, and the prevention and treatment of
reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers,
and through the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national health strategies
and programmes;
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