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Harmful gender norms are perpetuated at the highest levels. In some countries, they become entrenched in laws and policies that fail to uphold – or that even violate – girls rights, like laws that restrict women from inheriting property. Boys also suffer from gender norms: social conceptions of masculinity can fuel child labour, gang violence, disengagement from school, and recruitment into armed groups.

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Harmful gender norms are perpetuated at the highest levels. In some countries, they become entrenched in laws and policies that fail to uphold – or that even violate – girls rights, like laws that restrict women from inheriting property. Boys also suffer from gender norms: social conceptions of masculinity can fuel child labour, gang violence, disengagement from school, and recruitment into armed groups.

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Equality between women and men is a human rights issue and a condition of social justice, and is also a necessary and fundamental requirement for equality, development and peace. Gender Equality requires that, in a society, men and women enjoy the same opportunities, income, rights and obligations in all areas. They must benefit from the same conditions:        •in access to education;                    •opportunities at work and                career;
•in access to health;                           •in access to power and                     influence.

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Taking into account the inequalities and great asymmetries that persist, the promotion of equality goes through, all over the world, the empowerment of women and the improvement of their sexual and reproductive health, namely access to effective family planning. At another level of decision, the introduction of a gender perspective in policies is one of the fundamental tools to combat inequalities. Empowerment aims at the balance of power between men and women, by creating the conditions for women to be autonomous in their decisions and in the way of managing their lives.