A/HRC/RES/29/4 (d) Adopting or strengthening measures to combat multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, in particular against those belonging to vulnerable groups; 4. Also calls upon States to promote a culture free from all forms of discrimination against women and girls and to address its root causes by, inter alia: (a) Developing national mechanisms, measures and policies, as appropriate; (b) Adopting awareness-raising campaigns, educational and informational programmes; (c) Promoting the mobilization and engagement of civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders, including that of men and boys; (d) Providing gender-equality training for State civil servants, including those working on the judiciary; (e) Adopting a coherent set of gender-responsive social and economic policies; (f) Addressing poverty and social exclusion in order to overcome the structural barriers and inequality that they face; 5. Urges States to take all appropriate measures to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women; 6. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage and family relations, and to guarantee women’s equality in law and in practice in family life, in accordance with their respective international obligations and commitments by, inter alia: (a) Recognizing the equality of all family members before the law; (b) Opposing all forms of marriage that constitute a violation of women’s and girls’ rights, well-being and dignity; (c) Ensuring that men and women have the same right freely to choose a spouse, to enter into marriage only with their free and full consent and the same rights and responsibilities during marriage and at its dissolution; (d) Ensuring the same rights for both spouses in respect of the ownership, acquisition, management, administration, enjoyment and disposition of property; (e) Ensuring the same rights and responsibilities with regard to guardianship, wardship, trusteeship and the adoption of children, or similar institutions where these concepts exist in national legislation; in all cases, the interest of the children shall be paramount; 7. Reaffirms the importance of the right to education as a key to the empowerment of women and girls and for ensuring equality and non-discrimination, and that States should adopt measures to ensure the equal access of girls to quality education; to eliminate discriminatory laws and practices that prevent them from having access to, completing and continuing their education, and to provide incentive mechanisms to this end; and to develop and implement programmes, as appropriate, that specifically aim to eliminate gender disparities in enrolment and gender-based bias and stereotypes in education systems, curricula and materials, whether derived from any discriminatory practices, social or cultural attitudes or legal and economic circumstances; 3

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