Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 44
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(a) Adopting, strengthening and implementing legislation that prohibits domestic violence and adequately penalizes offences involving physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence occurring in families, and establishing adequate legal protection against such violence, including victim and witness protection from reprisals for bringing complaints or giving evidence;