CEDAW/C/GC/37 adapt to the changing climatic conditions effectively. Women are also indirectly affected by the impacts of weather-related events on the price of foodstuffs. 71. Articles 12 and 14 of the Convention contain specific guar antees on nutrition and the equal participation of women in decision-making about food production and consumption. In addition, the core obligations of States parties to eliminate discrimination, outlined in article 2, to modify cultural patterns of behavi our based on discriminatory stereotypes, in article 5 (a), to ensure equality before the law, in article 15, and to guarantee equality within marriage and family relations, in article 16, are of central importance to addressing women’s rights to land and productive resources, which are vital to ensuring the right to food and sustainable livelihoods. 72. States parties should: (a) Promote and protect women’s equal rights to food, housing, sanitation, land and natural resources, including adequate drinking water, water for domestic use and for food production, and take positive measures to guarantee the availability and accessibility of those rights, even during times of scarcity. Particular attention should be paid to ensuring that women living in poverty, in particular those in informal settlements in both urban and rural areas, have access to adequate housing, drinking water, sanitation and food, especially in the context of disasters and climate change; (b) Increase resilience to the impacts of disasters and climate change among women by identifying and supporting livelihoods that are sustainable and empowering, and develop gender-responsive services, including extension services to assist women farmers, that enable women to gain access to and benefit from those livelihoods; (c) Develop participatory, gender-responsive development plans and policies that integrate a human rights-based approach, in order to guarantee sustainable access to adequate housing, food, water and sanitation. Priority should be given to ensuring the accessibility of services for all women; (d) Adopt legislation, programmes and policies and allocate budgets to eliminate homelessness and to ensure that adequate and disaster resilient housing is available and accessible to all women, including those with disabilities. Measures must be taken to protect women against forced eviction and to ensure that public housing and rental assistance schemes accord priority and respond to the specific needs of groups of women. F. Right to freedom of movement 73. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and environmental degradation resulting from climate change are likely to lead to significant population displacement both within countries and across borders. 29 74. The Committee and many other international human rights bodies, including the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Wo rkers and Members of Their Families, have recognized that disasters and climate change are among the push __________________ 29 22/24 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women , “Addressing gender dimensions in large-scale movements of refugees and migrants”, joint statement by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 19 September 2016. 18-03824