CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/4-5 (b) Enhance efforts to develop a public information campaign on the Convention and raise awareness among women, including women belonging to disadvantaged groups, especially migrant, asylum-seeking, refugee and minority women, as well as women with disabilities, about their rights under the Convention and corresponding remedies; (c) Take the legislative measures necessary to give full effect to the rights under the Convention within the national legal order and promote the justiciability of such rights; (d) Promote capacity-building programmes for judges, prosecutors and lawyers on the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto, the Committee’s general recommendations, the Committee’s recommendations on the reporting procedure and the Committee’s views on individual communications, as well as inquiry and reporting procedure findings, and enable them to directly apply or invoke, respectively, those instruments in national courts and in order to interpret national legislation accordingly. Application of the Convention under the federal system 12. The Committee appreciates the explanation provided during the dialogue with the State party in relation to the direct applicability of the Conventio n, but reiterates its concern (see CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/3, para. 15) that, in accordance with the principle of monism, the decision to directly apply provisions of the Convention is at the discretion of the Federal Court and other judicial authorities at the federal and cantonal levels. 13. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (see CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/3, para. 16) that the State party conduct awarenessraising campaigns about the Convention aimed at the judiciary, legal professionals and the general public. The Committee also encourages the State party to provide systematic training to the judiciary, law enforcement officials and legal professionals on the Convention, with a view to encouraging them to use the Convention in judicial and administrative proceedings. Legislative framework 14. The Committee notes as positive the decision taken by the Federal Court to analyse in detail the State party’s obligations arising from article 2 (a) of the Convention and from the Committee’s previous concluding observations. Nevertheless, the Committee regrets that the scope of the definitions of discrimination against women and equality of women and men, as app lied by the Court, remains unchanged and that the “Constitution does not confer any right to establish equality ‘in fact’ (de facto)”. It is further concerned that, although article 8 of the new Constitution provides for a broad definition of the principle of equality, it is inadequately applied. 15. In accordance with the State party’s obligations under the Convention and in line with target 5.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals, to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (see CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/3, para. 18) that the State party take steps to ensure that the principles of equality of 4/19 16-20858

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