system in order to be independent, promote a global gender equality policy,
monitor other governmental institutions, and integrate their concerns at all
levels and in all areas. Measures should be taken to facilitate the active
participation of and coordination with non-governmental organizations and
related agencies and institutions doing research on women. Actions are also
required to ensure close integration of women in advisory consultative bodies
with national machinery.
Train in gender analysis
100. Governments should develop tools for gender analysis and require government
officials to apply these tools in developing policies and programmes; all key
personnel should be trained in gender analysis as a tool for planning,
implementation and monitoring programmes and projects. The United Nations
should assist countries by developing models for gender analysis for national
policies and programmes; the employment of women in policy development and
programme implementation institutions, especially for sustainable development,
should be promoted.
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Apply and enforce international norms and standards to
promote and safeguard the full and equal enjoyment by
women of all human rights
101. Women should be able to enjoy their rights on a full and equal basis and
actions should be taken that will enable women to exercise their rights. The
actions should cover all international human rights instruments and their
monitoring mechanisms. They should ensure that national norms reflect
international norms and that both are applied and enforced through mechanisms
that are open, accessible and effective.
Make international instruments effective
102. All human rights treaty bodies should include the status of women and the
human rights of women in their deliberations and findings and make use of
gender-specific data. States should supply information on the situation of
women de jure and de facto in their reports to treaty-monitoring bodies and also
work with all special rapporteurs and working groups on human rights in this
respect. The High Commissioner for Human Rights should monitor coordination and
cooperation among all human rights mechanisms on identification of violations of
and enjoyment by women of their human rights. Improved cooperation should be
developed between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on
Human Rights. Governments that have not yet done so should accede to human
rights conventions, including especially the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, so that universal ratification is
achieved by the year 2000. Non-governmental organizations should work
vigorously to change this through advocacy and awareness-raising campaigns.
States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women are urged to withdraw reservations that are
contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention or that are otherwise
incompatible with international treaty law. Sufficient resources should be
provided in the regular budget of the United Nations to the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women to enable it to fulfil its mandate.
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