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Women in development
promoting women’s capacity, leadership, participation and engagement in political
and economic decision-making and by preventing, combating and eliminating sexual
and gender-based violence in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, and, in this
regard, to promote and facilitate an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a
gender perspective into all policies and programmes;
43. Encourages Governments and all sectors of society to take sustainable
measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work
on an equal basis and ensure that labour markets and work environments are open,
inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities, and to tak e positive measures to
increase the employment of women with disabilities and to eliminate discrimination
on the basis of disability with regard to all matters concerning all forms of
employment, including recruitment, retention and promotion, and the prov ision of
safe, secure and healthy working conditions, in consultation with relevant national
mechanisms and organizations of persons with disabilities, including by promoting
access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and
entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and
maintain maximum independence, as noted in the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities 18 and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and
notes the need to strengthen efforts aimed at addressing the rights and needs of women
and children with disabilities;
44. Urges States to promote the integration of a gender perspective into
environmental and climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide
adequate resources to ensure the full and equal participation of women in all levels
of decision-making on environmental issues, and stresses the need to address the
challenges for women and girls posed by climate change;
45. Stresses the importance of the full and equal participation of women in
decision-making and of gender mainstreaming in the development and
implementation of disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery
strategies;
46. Also 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-sensitive indicators that are specific and relevant with respect to
supporting policymaking and national systems for monitoring and reportin g on
progress and impact, and in this 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;
47. Encourages Governments in cooperation with the United Nations system
and other relevant international organizations, upon the request of Governments, to
collect, analyse and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and statistics and to assess
the impact of associated policy measures on women’s:
(a)
Social protection and access to decent work;
(b) Unpaid care and domestic work, through regular time-use surveys and the
establishment of satellite accounts to assess the contribution of such work to national
income;
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