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SECTION 1 2 3<br />
TIME TO ACT<br />
• Implement laws that make it mandatory for governments to make national<br />
policies and regulations and bilateral and multilateral agreements available<br />
for public scrutiny before they are agreed;<br />
• Implement mechanisms for citizen representation and oversight in<br />
planning, budget processes and rule making, and ensure equal access<br />
for civil society – including trade unions and women’s rights groups –<br />
to politicians and policy makers;<br />
• Require the public disclosure of all lobbying activities and resources spent<br />
to influence elections and policy making;<br />
• Guarantee the right to information, freedom of expression and access<br />
to government data for all;<br />
• Guarantee free press and support the reversal of all laws that limit reporting<br />
by the press or target journalists for prosecution.<br />
Corporations should agree to:<br />
• End the practice of using their lobbying influence and political power to<br />
promote policies that exacerbate inequality and instead promote good<br />
governance and push other groups to do the same;<br />
• Make transparent all lobbying activities and resources spent to influence<br />
elections and policy making;<br />
• Support conditions that allow civil society to operate freely and<br />
independently, and encourage citizens to actively engage in the<br />
political process.<br />
2) PROMOTE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EQUALITY<br />
AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS<br />
Economic policy is not only creating extreme inequality, but also entrenching<br />
discrimination against women and holding back their economic empowerment.<br />
Economic policies must tackle both economic and gender inequalities.<br />
Governments and international institutions should agree to:<br />
• Implement economic policies and legislation to close the economic<br />
inequality gap for women, including measures that promote equal pay,<br />
decent work, access to credit, equal inheritance and land rights, and<br />
recognize, reduce and redistribute the burden of unpaid care;<br />
• Systematically analyze proposed economic policies for their impact on girls<br />
and women; improve data in national and accounting systems – including<br />
below the household level – to monitor and assess such impact (for<br />
example on the distribution of unpaid care work);<br />
• Prioritize gender-budgeting to assess the impact of spending decisions on<br />
women and girls, and allocate it in ways that promote gender equality;<br />
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