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and measures for women and girls with a gender perspective, and to support and
encourage the scaling-up of existing good-practice programmes and initiatives;
21. Recognizes that women and girls account for almost half of all
international migrants at the global level, and the need to address the special
situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by, inter alia, incorporating a
gender perspective into policies and strengthening national laws, institutions and
programmes to prevent and combat gender-based violence, trafficking in persons
and discrimination against women and girls,18 and calls upon Governments to
strengthen efforts to protect the rights of, and ensure decent work conditions for,
domestic workers, including migrant women and girls, in relation to, inter alia,
working hours, work conditions and wages, and to promote access to health-care
services and other social and economic benefits;
22. Encourages Governments and the United Nations system to recognize
unremunerated work, including domestic and care work, and to provide support
through the development of infrastructure and technologies and the provision of
public services, including accessible and quality childcare, incentives such as
parental leave, flexible working arrangements and allowances;
23. Encourages Member States to adopt and/or review and to fully
implement gender-sensitive legislation and policies that reduce, through specifically
targeted measures, horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and genderbased wage gaps;
24. Stresses the importance of improving and systematizing the collection,
analysis and dissemination of data disaggregated by sex and age and of developing
gender indicators that are specific and relevant with respect to supporting
policymaking and national systems for monitoring and reporting on progress and
impact, and in that regard encourages developed countries and relevant entities of
the United Nations system to provide support and assistance to developing
countries, upon their request, with respect to establishing, developing and
strengthening their databases and information systems;
25. Encourages Governments to collect, analyse and disseminate
sex-disaggregated data and statistics on women’s access to decent work,
unremunerated work and social protection and to assess the impact of associated
policy measures, in cooperation with the United Nations system and other
international organizations, upon the request of Governments;
26. Also encourages Governments to consider conducting time-use studies
and the use of satellite accounts to determine the extent of women’s and girls’
unremunerated work, including domestic and care work, and the impact of
associated policy measures, in cooperation with the United Nations system and
other international organizations upon the request of Governments;
27. Urges all Member States to undertake a gender analysis of national
labour laws and standards and to establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines
for employment practices, including for transnational corporations, with particular
attention to export-processing zones, building in this regard on multilateral
instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 22 and conventions of the International Labour
Organization;
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