United Nations, March 23 (Prensa Latina) The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is advocating this Saturday providing them with social protection guarantees, mobility, security and access to economic opportunities.

After negotiations that took longer than expected the day before, the recommendations contained in the final document, considered a roadmap on gender issues for governments and institutions around the world, are now available this Saturday.

The forum declaration reaffirms access to social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure for women and girls as key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

According to UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the recommendations from the CSW pave the way for governments to engage and invest differently.

In addition, they seek to engage women in public policy dialogue and lead initiatives that go to the heart of the greatest barriers to achieving empowerment and giving women and girls a voice.

The conclusions agreed by UN Member States at the CSW set out concrete measures to strengthen the leadership of women and girls as beneficiaries and users of social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure.

Investing in such areas to support women's labour productivity, including the informal economy, is among the first demands made in the CSW outcome document. Similarly, it advocates for recognizing, reducing and redistributing unpaid care and domestic work, ensuring access to social protection, health care coverage and pensions for those engaged in these activities.

The document highlights the need to increase investment in quality public services that are affordable and gender-sensitive, as well as to remove barriers to access due to factors such as physical distance, lack of information, stigma and discrimination.

It stresses that safe and affordable drinking water and sanitation, including for menstrual hygiene, must be ensured in homes, schools, refugee camps and other public places.

The CSW began on March 11 and concluded the day before, after overcoming many obstacles in its negotiations due to conservative and retrograde positions on gender issues from delegations such as the United States.