· Create policies and programmes to encourage behavioural change in perpetrators of violence against women, including rape, and monitor and assess the impact and effect of such programmes; · Establish legal literacy programmes to make women aware of their rights and the methods of seeking protection under the law; · Recognize that women and girls with disabilities, women migrants and refugee women and girls could be particularly affected by violence, and encourage the development of programmes for their support; · Encourage campaigns aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable women to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of trafficking; · Encourage and support men’s own initiatives to complement efforts of women’s organizations to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls; · Conduct research on, and create policies and programmes to change, the attitudes and behaviour of perpetrators of violence against women within family and society; · Actively encourage, support and implement measures aimed at increasing the knowledge and understanding of violence against women, through gender analysis capacity-building and gender-sensitive training for law enforcement officers, police personnel, the judiciary, medical and social workers, and teachers. II. WOMEN AND ARMED CONFLICT The Commission on the Status of Women Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action,26 notably chapter IV.E on women and armed conflict; Proposes the following, taking into account the Commission’s conclusions on human rights of women, violence against women and the girl child, in order to accelerate the implementation of the strategic objectives of chapter IV.E: A. Ensuring gender-sensitive justice Actions to be taken by Governments: · Ensure that national legal systems provide accessible and gendersensitive avenues of redress for victims of armed conflict; · Ensure that a gender-sensitive perspective is integrated in the drafting and interpretation of international law and domestic 26 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. -15-