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    12. Spare no efforts to speed up the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the attainment of the MDGs;

    13. Eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and ensure their full enjoyment of all human rights as an inalienable, indispensable and integral part of human rights and fundamental freedoms;

    14. Intensify efforts on poverty eradication and halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people in hunger and extreme poverty, strive to free all women and men from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty and free the entire human race from want;

    15. Ensure women's equal and full participation in political, economic and social decision-making and strive for the early achievement of gender parity in management in both public and private sectors;

    16. Speed up the implementation of Education for All, ensure women's and girls' equal access to information and media resources and strengthen all other measures to enhance capacity-making;

    17. Ensure women's enjoyment of health throughout their life cycle and provide affordable and quality health care services; promote women's reproductive health in line with the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)Program of Action; eradicate all practices that are detrimental to the health of women and girls;

    18. Ensure that women and girls have the knowledge and means to prevent HIV transmission and have equal and universal access to counseling, treatment and care;

    19. Promote women's economic independence and economic empowerment, in particular ensure women's equal access to economic, financial and market resources and benefits; promote women's employment and decent work, and improve labor protectionand social security systems;

    20. Eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, prevent combat all forms of trafficking including relatedexploitation and human rights violations, and safeguard the rights of migrant women;

    21. Promote women's equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution and support local women's initiatives for peace;

    22. Strengthen women's role in environmental protection, environmental management and disaster reduction, increase their access to such basic requirements as clean water, sanitation, energy, health care, food security and the protection of biodiversity, and promote people-centered sustainable development;

    23. Implement gender-mainstreaming strategies and provide adequate resources and strong political support to national machineries for gender equality; but ensure that such strategies and machineries do not replace specific actions and programs targeting women;

    24. Meet the needs and respect the rights of women in disadvantaged situations and ensure that they equally participateand benefit in social, political, economic and cultural spheres;

    25. Recognize men and boys as gendered persons and further recognize their capacities in bringing about changes in attitudes,relationships and access to resources and decision-making, encourage and support their equal participation in all activities and programs for gender equality;

    26. Create an enabling international environmental for women's advancement where peace and solidarity prevail, and promote a balance between economic development and social development among regions, strengthen cooperation particularly in providing least developed countries and developing countries with financial and technical resources and personal training to enhance capacity-building;

    27. Respect, within the international framework, the different paths for gender equality developed by countries in accordance with their own situation; enhance mutual understanding and experience sharing for common development. Enditem