Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions • Monitor and work with individuals and entities in the private sector and non-governmental sphere to ensure that they do not discriminate against women and girls (paragraph 14). • Monitor the activities of businesses, from local to global, and report on any adverse impacts on women’s and girls’ enjoyment of their human rights (paragraph 15). AMMAN PROGRAMME OF ACTION In relation to women’s public and political participation NHRIs agree to: • Promote measures, including through education and the adoption of laws and practices, to eliminate traditions and social and cultural barriers and stereotypes that discourage or prevent women from exercising their right to vote or from otherwise participating in public, peace and political processes (paragraph 2). • Provide assistance or support to women who face social and economic barriers to public and political participation, such as illiteracy, language, poverty, and impediments to women’s freedom of movement, in order that these barriers may be overcome (paragraph 3). • Encourage the adoption of temporary special measures to ensure that women are sufficiently represented in elected as well as appointed positions within the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government, and work with political parties to adopt affirmative measures to support more women candidates (paragraph 4). • Promote mechanisms to ensure that girls’ voices are heard in matters affecting their wellbeing (paragraph 5). In relation to women’s economic, social and cultural rights, NHRIs agree to: • Support efforts to analyse whether States are spending the maximum of available resources on the progressive realization of women’s economic, social and cultural rights through encouraging government use of a gender perspective in their planning processes, and human rights and gender budgeting tools. NHRIs should share their findings with parliaments as a contribution to decision-making on budgeting and promote the use of human rights budgeting and gender budgeting tools by parliaments (paragraph 7). • Facilitate training of lawyers, prosecutors, judges, parliamentarians and government officials on women’s economic, social and cultural rights (paragraph 9). • Undertake awareness raising activities with women to educate them about their rights and mechanisms at their disposal for claiming their economic, social and cultural rights (paragraph 11). • Monitor or support efforts to monitor women’s rights to decent work, including equal remuneration and equal access to education, training and professional development, as well as ensuring women’s health, safety and well-being in all workplaces (paragraph 13). • Monitor or support efforts to monitor women’s unpaid work and provide recommendations for support to women who have caring responsibilities, such as ensuring adequate child care, paid parental leave and flexible working arrangements among other measures, while promoting equal division of labour in the home (paragraph 14). In relation to violence against women and girls, NHRIs agree to: • Encourage and aid the compilation of an evidence base (e.g. data, inquiries, research) on the nature, extent, causes and effects of all forms of gender-based violence, and on the effectiveness of measures to prevent and address gender-based violence (paragraph 15). 78