A/HRC/41/33/Add.2 (d) Ensure that non-discrimination and gender equality are an integral part of the values underpinning the core curriculum; (e) Provide comprehensive age-appropriate, scientifically based sexuality education and remove any stereotypical teaching material and content from education; (f) Ensure respect for freedom of expression in all education institutions and the continuous operation of academic programmes on gender equality. 85. With regard to health, the Working Group recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure full access to health-care services, including reproductive health care and tailored care to address the needs of adolescent girls, women with disabilities, sex workers, rural women and lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex women; (b) Ensure that a full range of modern contraceptives and related information and services, including emergency contraception, are readily accessible to and affordable for all women; (c) Ensure that legal abortion is accessible in practice by removing existing barriers and abortion stigma, including through the proper monitoring and regulation of the practice of conscientious objection and by improving the effectiveness of the complaint mechanism, and consider liberalizing the abortion law; (d) Ensure full access to reproductive health contraceptive information and services, for adolescents; services, including (e) Continue with efforts to improve access to and the quality of maternal health care for all pregnant women in rural and urban areas. 86. With regard to family and cultural life, the Working Group recommends that the Government: (a) Recognize diverse family forms and the right of women with disabilities to form families; (b) Increase childcare facilities, especially for children under 3 years of age, and reduce disparities between urban and rural areas; (c) Take further measures to encourage more fathers to make use of the parental leave entitlement; (d) Revise laws concerning the exercise of parental rights of unwed minor girls to ensure compatibility with human rights standards, in particular the principle of non-discrimination; (e) Facilitate the stay of children with young mothers placed in care institutions or correctional centres to ensure compatibility with human rights standards; (f) Make efforts to counteract attacks against “gender ideology”; (g) Undertake educational and awareness-raising campaigns aimed at eliminating harmful gender stereotypes. 87. With regard to gender-based violence against women, the Working Group recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure a comprehensive approach to combating gender-based violence against women, in line with the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and general recommendation No. 35 (2017) of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19, and the full compatibility of laws regulating domestic violence with these standards by broadening the scope of its definition and coverage, 19

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