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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;
25. 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, 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, working conditions and wages, and to promote access to health -care
services and other social and economic benefits;
26. Also recognizes the special needs of women and girls living in areas
affected by complex humanitarian emergencies and in areas affected by terrorism,
and that global health threats, climate change, more frequent and intense natural
disasters, spiralling conflicts, violent extremism, terrorism and related humanitarian
crises and forced displacement of people threaten to reverse much of the
development progress made in recent decades and have particular negative impacts
on women and girls that need to be comprehensively assessed and addressed;
27. 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 gender based wage gaps;
28. Stresses the importance of improving and systematizing the collection,
analysis and dissemination of high-quality, accessible, timely and reliable data,
disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability,
geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, 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;
29. Encourages Governments to collect, analyse and disseminate sexdisaggregated 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;
30. Also encourages Governments to strengthen the collection of time -use
data, time-use research on the unpaid care burdens of women and girls and the
construction of satellite accounts to determine the value of unpaid care work and its
contribution to the national economy, as appropriate, in cooperation with the United
Nations system and other international organizations, upon the request of
Governments;
31. 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
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