Equality, Rights and Gender Equality Strand: To promote rights, non-discrimination, equality, including gender equality, and advance gender and non-discrimination mainstreaming. Projects in this area will: - prevent and combat inequalities and discrimination on grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation and respecting the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds provided for in Article 21 of the EU Charter; - promote women’s full enjoyment of rights, gender equality, including work-life balance, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming; - combat all forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia, afrophobia, antisemitism, anti-gypsism, anti-muslim hatred, and other forms of intolerance, including homophobia and other forms of intolerance based on gender identity both online and offline; - protect and promote the rights of the child, awareness raising of children rights in judicial proceedings, capacity-building of child protection systems - protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities, for their active inclusion and full participation in society; - tackle the challenges related to the protection of personal data and data protection reform, as well as to support the stakeholder dialogue in this area; - support the efforts to enable people to exercise their rights as EU citizens and enforce free movement rights, as well as tackling the abuse of those rights.