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about the pandemic; the ability to maintain social distancing; and access to testing and
treatment, and to other necessities, including food, education, adequate housing, safe
drinking water and sanitation, and essential health services, including sexual and
reproductive health information and services;
10.
Urges States to systematically gather outbreak-related data that are
disaggregated by sex, age, disability and other characteristics relevant in national contexts,
to examine and report on the gender-specific and intersectional health, social and economic
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls, both direct and indirect, as well as
on the gender-specific human rights impact of the pandemic, and utilize these data in the
formulation of responses;
11.
Calls upon all States to continue to develop and enhance standards and
methodologies using a human rights-based approach in the design and roll-out of population
censuses and household surveys, as well as in the collection, analysis and dissemination of
gender statistics, and sex-, age- and disability- disaggregated data by strengthening national
statistical capacity, including by enhancing the mobilization, from all sources, of financial
and technical assistance to enable developing countries to systematically design, collect and
ensure access to high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age, disability,
income and other characteristics relevant in national contexts;
12.
Also 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, invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and
programmes, in particular the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the treaty bodies and other special procedures,
within their respective mandates, and civil society actors, 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 formally reporting;
13.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the reports of the Working Group
are brought to the attention of the Commission on the Status of Women and the General
Assembly, and requests the Working Group to present an oral report annually to the
Commission and to the Assembly;
14.
Welcomes the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights held at its
forty-fourth session, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to present a summary report on the annual discussion to the Council at its
forty-seventh session;
15.
Decides to continue its consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms
of discrimination against women and girls as a matter of high priority, in conformity with its
programme of work, at its fiftieth session.
28th meeting
17 July 2020
[Adopted without a vote.]
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