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available, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods of modern contraception,
emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal
health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, which will
reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery, safe abortion
where such services are permitted by national law, and the prevention and treatment of
reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers,
and recognizing that human rights include the right to have control over and to decide
freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and
reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence;
(e)
Strengthening measures to prevent and eliminate violence against and
victimization of women and girls living with, at risk of or affected by HIV, and integrating
such measures into comprehensive HIV policies and programmes, while fully engaging
men and boys to recognize that gender equality and positive social norms promote effective
responses to HIV;
(f)
Engaging, educating, encouraging and supporting men and boys to be
positive role models for gender equality and to promote respectful relationships, to refrain
from and condemn all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, to
take responsibility and be held accountable for behaviour, including behaviour that
perpetuates gender stereotypes, including misconceptions about masculinities that underlie
discrimination and violence against women and girls, to increase their understanding of the
harmful effects of violence for the victim/survivor and society as a whole, and to ensure
that men and boys take responsibility for their sexual and reproductive behaviour;
(g)
Developing and implementing educational programmes and teaching
materials, including comprehensive sexuality education, based on full and accurate
information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving
capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with
the active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, in order to modify the social and
cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to
promote and build decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills for the
development of respectful relationships based on gender equality and human rights, as well
as teacher education and training programmes for both formal and non-formal education;
(h)
Developing, investing in and implementing evidence-based policies,
strategies and programmes, and awareness-raising campaigns to promote respectful
relationships, provide positive role models for gender equality and encourage men and
boys, alongside women and girls, to see themselves as agents and beneficiaries of the
elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
(i)
Enacting or strengthening and enforcing laws and policies to eliminate all
forms of violence and harassment against women of all ages in the world of work,
including sexual harassment, so as to promote the realization of women’s and girls’
economic rights and empowerment and to facilitate women’s full and productive
employment and contribution to the economy, including by engaging men and boys to
recognize the societal and economic costs of violence and harassment;
(j)
Building on evidence-based research and policy initiatives and legislative
approaches that support the constructive engagement of men and boys in preventing
violence against women and girls, including in primary prevention, prevention skillbuilding, group education, community outreach, mobilization and mass media campaigns
and early childhood gender equality education programmes and curricula;
(k)
Measuring the effectiveness of policies and programmes to prevent violence
against women and girls and to address gender inequalities, including those aimed at
engaging men and boys and understanding behavioural change, as well as establishing the
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