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(d) To exercise leadership to end all forms of violence against women and
support advocacy in this regard at all levels, including at the local, national, regional
and international levels, and by all sectors, especially by political and community
leaders, as well as the public and private sectors, the media and civil society;
(e) To empower women, particularly poor women, through, inter alia, social
and economic policies that guarantee them full and equal access to all levels of
quality education and training and to affordable and adequate public and social
services, as well as full and equal rights to own land and other property, and to take
further appropriate measures to address the increasing rate of homelessness or
inadequate housing for women in order to reduce their vulnerability to violence;
(f) To take positive measures to address structural causes of violence against
women and to strengthen prevention efforts that address discriminatory practices and
social norms, including with regard to women who need special attention in the
development of policies to address violence, such as women belonging to minority
groups, including those based on nationality, ethnicity, religion or language, indigenous
women, migrant women, stateless women, women living in underdeveloped, rural or
remote communities, homeless women, women in institutions or in detention, women
with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women who are otherwise discriminated
against;
(g) To ensure that diverse strategies that take into account the intersection of
gender with other factors are developed in order to eradicate all forms of violence
against women;
(h) To exercise due diligence to prevent all acts of violence against women,
including by improving the safety of public environments;
(i) To end impunity for violence against women, by prosecuting and
punishing all perpetrators, by ensuring that women have equal protection of the law
and equal access to justice and by holding up to public scrutiny and eliminating
those attitudes that foster, justify or tolerate violence;
(j) To strengthen national health and social infrastructure to reinforce
measures to promote women’s equal access to public health and address the health
consequences of violence against women, including by providing support to victims;
(k) To recognize that gender inequalities and all forms of violence against
women and girls increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and ensure that women
can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on,
matters related to their sexuality in order to increase their ability to protect
themselves from HIV infection, including their sexual and reproductive health, free
of coercion, discrimination and violence;
(l) To ensure that men and women and boys and girls have access to
education and literacy programmes and are educated on gender equality and human
rights, particularly women’s rights and their responsibility to respect the rights of
others, inter alia, by integrating women’s rights into all appropriate curricula and by
developing gender-sensitive teaching materials and classroom practices, especially
for early childhood education;
(m) To provide training and capacity-building on gender equality and
women’s rights for, inter alia, health workers, teachers, law enforcement personnel,
military personnel, social workers, the judiciary, community leaders and the media;
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