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ensuring that their identity is protected during public hearings and their testimony is
taken by female professionals;
(g) Provide effective and timely remedies that respond to the various types
of violations experienced by women and ensure the provision of adequate and
comprehensive reparations, and address all gender-based violations, including
sexual and reproductive rights violations, domestic and sexual enslavement, forced
marriage and forced displacement, sexual violence and violations of economic,
social and cultural rights;
(h) Adopt gender-sensitive procedures in order to avoid revictimization and
stigmatization, establish special protection units and gender desks in police stations,
undertake investigations confidentially and sensitively and ensure that, during
investigations and trials, equal weight is given to the testimony of women and girls
as to that of men;
(i) Combat impunity for violations of women’s rights and ensure that all
human rights violations are properly investigated, prosecuted and punished by
bringing the perpetrators to justice;
(j) Enhance criminal accountability, including by ensuring the
independence, impartiality and integrity of the judicial system, by strengthening the
capacity of security, medical and judicial personnel to collect and preserve forensic
evidence relating to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict contexts, and by
enhancing collaboration with other justice systems, including the International
Criminal Court;
(k) Enhance women’s access to justice, including through the provision of
legal aid and the establishment of specialized courts, such as domestic violence and
family courts, providing mobile courts for camps and settlement settings and for
remote areas, and ensure adequate protection measures for victims and witnesses,
including non-disclosure of identity and the provision of shelters;
(l) Engage directly with informal justice mechanisms and encourage
appropriate reforms, where necessary, in order to bring such processes into line with
human rights and gender equality standards, and to ensure that women are not
discriminated against.
V. Conclusion
82. In addition to those made above, the Committee makes the recommendations
to States parties set out below.
A.
Monitoring and reporting
83. States parties should report on the legal framework, policies and programmes
that they have implemented to ensure the human rights of women in conflict
prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations. States parties should collect,
analyse and make available sex-disaggregated statistics, in addition to trends over
time, concerning women, peace and security. States parties’ reports should address
actions inside and outside their territory in areas under their jurisdiction, in addition to
their actions taken individually and as members of international or intergovernmental
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