CEDAW/C/GC/30 has a responsibility to adopt measures to ensure that the policies and decisions of those organizations conform to its obligations under the Convention. 15. The Committee has also repeatedly stressed that the Convention requires States parties to regulate non-State actors under the duty to protect, such that States must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, punish and ensure redress for the acts of private individuals or entities that impair the rights enshrined in the Convention. In its general recommendations Nos. 19 and 28, the Committee has outlined due diligence obligations in protecting women from violence and discrimination, emphasizing that, alongside constitutional and legislative measures, States parties must also provide adequate administrative and financial support for the implementation of the Convention. 16. In addition to requiring States parties to regulate non-State actors, international humanitarian law contains relevant obligations that bind non-State actors, as parties to an armed conflict (for example, insurgents and rebel groups) such as in common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of noninternational armed conflicts. Under international human rights law, although nonState actors cannot become parties to the Convention, the Committee notes that, under certain circumstances, in particular where an armed group with an identifiable political structure exercises significant control over territory and population, non-State actors are obliged to respect international human rights. The Committee emphasizes that gross violations of human rights and serious violations of humanitarian law could entail individual criminal responsibility, including for members and leaders of non-State armed groups and private military contractors. 17. The Committee recommends that States parties: (a) Ensure redress for the acts of private individuals or entities, as part of their due diligence obligation; (b) Reject all forms of rollbacks in women’s rights protections in order to appease non-State actors such as terrorists, private individuals or armed groups; (c) Engage with non-State actors to prevent human rights abuses relating to their activities in conflict-affected areas, in particular all forms of gender-based violence; adequately assist national corporations in assessing and addressing the heightened risks of abuses of women’s rights; and establish an effective accountability mechanism; (d) Use gender-sensitive practices (for example, use of female police officers) in the investigation of violations during and after conflict to ensure that violations by State and non-State actors are identified and addressed. 18. The Committee also urges non-State actors such as armed groups: (a) To respect women’s rights in conflict and post-conflict situations, in line with the Convention; (b) To commit themselves to abiding by codes of conduct on human rights and the prohibition of all forms of gender-based violence. 13-54331 5/24