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which appeared to reveal a consistent pattern of reliably attested injustice and
discriminatory practices against women;
(b) Preparation of a report, based on its analysis of the confidential and
non-confidential communications, which would indicate the categories in
which communications were most frequently submitted to the Commission.
6.
The Working Group noted that a number of communications of a general
nature had been submitted, as well as communications alleging specific cases
of discrimination against individual women and girls.
7.
The Working Group discerned the following categories in which
communications had most frequently been submitted to the Commission:
(a) Sexual violence against women and girls, including rape, marital
rape and rape within the family, forced prostitution, sexual exploitation and
sexual harassment, including in the workplace, committed by private
individuals, military and law enforcement personnel;
(b) Other forms of violence against women and girls, including murder,
domestic violence, child, early and forced marriage, female genital
mutilation/cutting, coerced abortion, forced sterilization, and trafficking in
women and girls for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation;
(c) Abuse of power by law enforcement officials and military forces,
lack of due process and delays in proceedings, arbitrary arrest and detention,
and failure to grant a fair trial and prevent impunity;
(d) Pressure exerted on victims of violence by private individuals and
law enforcement officials, often preventing them from filing complaints or
leading them to withdraw their complaints;
(e) Inhuman and degrading treatment, torture, sexual violence and
inadequate conditions for women in detention and penitentiary systems;
(f) Serious and systematic violations of the human rights of women
and girls, some of which target vulnerable groups, such as indigenous women,
women and girls with disabilities, migrant women and women belonging to
minorities, including ethnic and religious minorities, including harassment,
detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, rape, torture and
abduction;
(g) Intimidation, violence, harassment, including sexual harassment,
torture, rape and detention of women human rights defenders, and restrictions
on the right to freedom of expression of women human rights defenders, as a
means of exerting pressure on them to stop their activities;
(h) Violations of the right to health, including sexual and reproductive
health, and reproductive rights as stipulated in the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, of women and girls,
including in medical facilities, and restricted access to services, including
gynaecological and obstetric services, discrimination on the basis of HIVpositive status and discrimination against women drug users;
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