A/HRC/RES/29/4 8. Urges States to ensure that women have equal access to all economic, financial, fiscal and social services and benefits without discrimination, including those that head a family; 9. Calls upon States to promote the rights of women and girls and to support their empowerment by adopting, as appropriate, a coherent set of gender-responsive policies directed at cultural and family life; 10. Also calls upon States to promote reforms, the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms and good governance, and to accelerate the implementation of legal frameworks and policies directed towards achieving equality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls, including nationality laws; 11. Further calls upon States to take concrete steps directed to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women at all levels of policymaking processes and decision-making positions; 12. Stresses the need to accelerate efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence; 13. Also stresses the need to accelerate efforts to ensure accountability and due diligence for acts that violate women’s rights by adopting measures to, inter alia: (a) impunity; Prevent violations and prosecute and punish the perpetrators, and combat (b) Address the needs of women and girls victims and avoid their revictimization; (c) Guarantee access to justice and effective remedies and redress that take into account multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination; 14. Further stresses the need to make the formal legal system accessible to all women, regardless of any status; 15. Urges States to recognize the important role that the media can play in the elimination of gender stereotypes and in the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; 16. Recognizes that civil society organizations, in particular independent women’s organizations and human rights defenders, do important work in promoting full equality in all aspects of life, including cultural and family life, and eliminating violence against women and girls, and that they therefore require support for their sustainability and growth; 17. Calls upon all States to cooperate with and assist the Working Group in its task, to supply all necessary available information requested by it and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to its requests to visit their country to enable it to fulfil its mandate effectively; 18. Invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, the treaty bodies, within their respective mandates, and civil society actors, including nongovernmental organizations, as well as the private sector, to cooperate fully with the Working Group in the fulfilment of its mandate, and requests the Working Group to continue to engage with the Commission on the Status of Women, including by participating in its work and reporting, on request; 19. Notes with appreciation the intention of the Working Group to focus its next report on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice in health and safety; 4