A/HRC/11/6 page 28 large. Therefore, promotion and protection of women’s economic and social entitlements to prevent and protect them from violence must be pursued transnationally. The future of human rights and distributive justice will require democratizing cultural, political and economic hegemony. 86. In view of the above discussion, a viable strategy to address the underlying socio-economic causes of VAW must include, but not be limited, to the following broad guidelines, which apply to Governments as well as local and international non-State actors. 87. Creation of a gender-sensitive knowledge base as follows: (a) Develop indicators and generate sex-disaggregated data on risk and preventive factors on VAW that include economic and political factors; (b) Generate sex-disaggregated data on VAW, its causes and consequences in conflict, post-conflict and other reconstruction processes; (c) Document shortfalls in economic and social rights of women parallel to violations in political and civil rights; (d) Include indicators and targets for eliminating VAW with measures of women’s economic and political participation in MDG 3 on empowering women, and the UNDP Gender and Development and Gender Empowerment Indexes. 88. Establishing gender-competent policy and programming as follows: (a) Design public works programmes in the social and service sectors to promote women’s employment and support their role as economic agents by contributing to greater social provisioning needs in the household and community; (b) Provide non-discriminative economic opportunities and reconstruction programmes that address the economic and social dimensions of women’s empowerment in post-conflict and crisis societies; (c) Codify economic and social rights in enforceable national law, including guarantees for minimum level of income, food, health care, etc.; (d) Evaluate all policies of Governments and international financial institutions from a gender-perspective guided by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, with the view to preventing negative consequences for women of economic liberalization, financial and structural adjustment policies and programmes, and trade agreements - at a minimum, these policies should “do no harm”;

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