• Ensure that their personnel periodically receive
including domestic mechanisms, which are monitored and revised to ensure that they function
without discrimination, and international mechanisms that address human rights as provided, inter
alia, under the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women;
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;
• Promote changes that ensure that women enjoy
• Establish and strengthen partnerships and cooper-
equal opportunities in law and in practice to claim
their rights through the national legal systems,
including through educating them on these rights
as well as ensuring availability of measures such
as free or affordable legal aid, legal representation
and court appeals procedures, and support existing
programmes of non-governmental organizations
and other agencies.
ation 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;
C. Policies, mechanisms and machineries
• 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.
Actions to be taken by Governments:
• Ratify and accede to and ensure implementation of
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women so that universal
ratification of the Convention can be achieved by
the year 2000;
B. Legal and regulatory framework
• Limit the extent of any reservations to the
Actions to be taken by Governments:
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women: formulate any
such reservations as precisely and as narrowly as
possible; ensure that no reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention
or otherwise incompatible with international treaty
law and regularly review those reservations with a
view to withdrawing them; and withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and purpose of
the Convention or that are otherwise incompatible
with international treaty law;
• Guarantee the existence of a national legal and
regulatory framework, including independent
national institutions, or other appropriate mechanisms, that ensure the full realization of all human
rights of women and girls on the basis of equality
and non-discrimination, including their right to be
free from violence, in accordance with the Charter
of the United Nations, other instruments related to
human rights and international law;
• Take steps, including a gender-sensitive review of
• Create channels of communication to promote
national legislation, to revoke any laws or legal
procedures and eradicate practices – national or
customary – that promote discrimination on the
basis of sex;
information exchange between national institutions that address the human rights of women,
and non-governmental organizations and relevant
policy-making bodies of Government;
• Ensure that women and children have full and equal
• Create gender mainstreaming mechanisms within
access to effective legal remedies for violations,
all policy-making bodies so that women's ability to
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