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economy, through, inter alia, undertaking legislation and administrative reforms, as
appropriate, to give women equal rights with men in political and economic
decision-making and access to economic resources and to promote the reconciliation
of work and family responsibilities, including through paid maternity and parental
leave and the redistribution of the disproportionate work burden of women engaged
in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, and encourages the private
sector, in accordance with national legislation, to contribute through advancing
gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and
decent work, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal
opportunities, as well as by protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the
workplace;
39. Emphasizes the reference in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development to the need to ensure the significant mobilization of resources from a
variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to
provide predictable means for developing countries, in particular the least developed
countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its forms and
dimensions;
40. Urges the international community, including the United Nations system,
to implement the outcome documents relating to the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as established by
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the unfinished business of the
Millennium Development Goals, and the means of implementation, including the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda;
41. Also urges the international community, including the United Nations
system, to implement the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development 20 in support of the objectives of the
Second Decade;
42. Stresses that the impacts of natural disasters, conflicts and major
outbreaks of diseases are severely hampering efforts to achieve poverty eradication,
in particular in developing countries, and calls upon the international community to
give priority to addressing them;
43. Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations development system,
including the funds and programmes and the specialized agencies, in accordance
with their mandates, to assign the highest priority to poverty eradication, and
stresses that efforts in this area should be scaled up to address the root causes of
extreme poverty and hunger;
44. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to support Member States, at their
request, in strengthening their macroeconomic policy capacity and national
development strategies so as to contribute to achieving the objectives of the Second
Decade;
45. Encourages greater inter-agency convergence and collaboration within
the United Nations system in sharing knowledge, promoting policy dialogue,
facilitating synergies, mobilizing funds, providing technical assistance in the key
policy areas underlying the decent work agenda and strengthening system-wide
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