human rights, is compiled and widely disseminated, and that this gender-sensitive interpretation of human rights is fully integrated into all policies and programmes of international and regional organizations; · Make widely available reports of United Nations mechanisms that deal with the human rights of women, such as on discrimination and violence against women, to the public, including the judiciary, parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations; · Support, encourage and disseminate research, and collect gender- and age-disaggregated statistics on factors and multiple barriers that affect the full enjoyment by women of their economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, including their right to development, and on violations that are particular to women, and disseminate the findings and utilize the collected data in assessing the implementation of the human rights of women; · Develop and implement national legislation and policies prohibiting customary and traditional practices that are harmful to women and that are violations of women’s human rights; · Eradicate customary or traditional practices, particularly female genital mutilation, that are harmful to, or discriminatory against, women and that are violations of women’s human rights and fundamental freedoms, through the design and implementation of awareness-raising programmes, education and training; · Ensure that their personnel periodically receive gender training and are educated and made aware of all women’s, men’s and children’s human rights; · Mobilize the resources necessary and create the conditions for the full exercise of women’s economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights; · Establish and strengthen partnerships and cooperation with each other and with the United Nations system and regional organizations in order to promote more actively the full enjoyment by women of their human rights; · Ensure that indigenous and other marginalized women’s special conditions are taken fully into consideration within the framework of the human rights of women; · Mainstream a gender perspective, as appropriate, into national immigration and asylum policies, regulations and practices in order to extend protection to those women whose claim for protection is based on gender-related persecution. B. Legal and regulatory framework Actions to be taken by Governments: · Guarantee the existence of a national legal and regulatory framework, including independent national institutions, or other appropriate -22-