Women in development A/RES/72/234 wage practices and promoting measures such as public works programmes in order to enable women to cope with recurrent crises and lo ng-term unemployment; 24. Reaffirms its commitment to diversity in cities and human settlements, to strengthening social cohesion, intercultural dialogue and understanding, tolerance, mutual respect, gender equality, innovation, entrepreneurship, inclusi on, identity and safety and the dignity of all people, as well as to fostering liveability and a vibrant urban economy and to taking steps to ensure that local institutions promote pluralism and peaceful coexistence within increasingly heterogeneous and mu lticultural societies; 25. Encourages Member States to adopt and implement, as appropriate, legislation and policies protecting women’s labour and human rights in the workplace, including with respect to minimum wages, social protection and equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value, promoting collective bargaining and providing for recruitment, retention and promotion policies targeting women; 26. Urges Member States to adopt and implement legislation and policies, as appropriate, that are designed to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities and that recognize, value, reduce and redistribute women ’s disproportionate share of unpaid and domestic work and the work burden of women engaged in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, including through increased flexibility in working arrangements, such as part -time work, and the facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers, to provide support through the development of infrastructure and technology and the provision o f public services, including accessible and quality childcare and care facilities for children and other dependants, and to ensure that both women and men have access to social protection and maternity or paternity, parental and other forms of leave and al lowances and are not discriminated against when availing themselves of such benefits; 27. Encourages Governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders to promote and protect the rights of women workers, to take action to remove structural and legal barriers to, as well as eliminate stereotypical attitudes towards, gender equality at work, to implement measures to achieve equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value, as well as women’s full participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decisionmaking and resource allocation, and to take measures to increase women ’s access to productive resources and assets, including technology, land, property and financial services, including microfinance, as appropriate; 28. Encourages the United Nations system and donor countries to support Member States in increasing their investments in gender-responsive policies and programmes, in order to promote full employment and decent work for women, an d in delivering relevant social protection and social services; 29. Urges Governments to develop, adequately resource and implement active labour market policies on full and productive employment and decent work for all, including the full participation of women and men in both rural and urban areas, as well as policies that encourage the full and equal participation of women and men, including persons with disabilities, in the formal labour market, to enact or strengthen and enforce laws and regulatory frameworks that ensure equality and prohibit discrimination against women, in particular in the world of work, including their participation in and access to labour markets, inter alia, laws and frameworks that prohibit discrimination based on pregnancy, motherhood, marital status or age, as well as other multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, to take appropriate measures to ensure that women, throughout the life cycle, have equal opportunities for decent work in the public and private sectors, while recognizing that temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women 17-23312 9/15