A/HRC/RES/41/6 (c) To implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women through appropriate legislation, regulation, policies and programmes; (d) To cooperate fully with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other human rights treaty bodies, and to implement its recommendations, as appropriate; 2. Takes note of the work undertaken by the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, including its report,1 and calls upon States to support substantive equality by adopting appropriate measures, including temporary special measures, necessary to prevent, diminish and eliminate patriarchal and gender stereotypes that cause or perpetuate substantive or de facto discrimination, and to adopt an intersectional approach to genuinely respond to the needs of women and girls with different backgrounds; 3. Calls upon States to take steps to promote reforms as appropriate and to implement legal frameworks and policies directed to advance substantive gender equality and the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls and make the necessary investments in this regard in all spheres, taking into consideration the good practices and recommendations identified by the Working Group and the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, by other States in the context of the universal periodic review and by other relevant human rights mechanisms, with a view to ensuring the realization of human rights by all women and girls; 4. Also calls upon States: (a) To repeal all laws that exclusively or disproportionately criminalize the actions or behaviour of women and girls, and laws and policies that discriminate against them, based on any grounds, including any custom, tradition or misuse of culture or religion contrary to the international obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls; (b) To ensure that their international obligations on gender equality and nondiscrimination are incorporated at all levels of legal frameworks, policies and practices, including in relation to women’s and girls’ access to justice, redress and effective remedies; (c) To consider reviewing all proposed and existing legislation in accordance with international human rights obligations and a gender- and age-responsive perspective, and repealing discriminatory laws with a view to preventing retrogression, involving, when necessary, independent experts, national human rights institutions, women human rights defenders, women’s and girls’ community-based organizations, feminist groups, youth-led organizations and other relevant stakeholders; (d) To promote legislation, regulation, policies and programmes that facilitate the economic empowerment of all women and girls, ensure equal pay for work of equal value and prohibit all forms of discrimination, including in the workplace and in education, such as discrimination based on pregnancy, maternity, marital status, age, race or gender, as well as violence and harassment against women and girls; (e) To work towards establishing or strengthening inclusive and genderresponsive social protection systems, including floors, to ensure full access to nationally appropriate social protection for all without discrimination of any kind, and to take measures to progressively achieve higher levels of protection, including by facilitating the transition from informal to formal work; 5. Urges States: (a) To ensure women’s and girls’ equal enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights through the prohibition of and appropriate action to eliminate all forms of discrimination by all actors, State and non-State alike; 1 A/HRC/41/33. 3