E/2011/27 E/CN.6/2011/12 enforcement officials, often preventing them from filing complaints or leading them to withdraw their complaints; (f) Inhuman treatment in detention and inadequate conditions of imprisonment for women, including failure to provide women inmates with access to basic medical care and adequate hygiene standards, in particular women asylum-seekers, refugee women and undocumented migrants; (g) Serious and systematic violations of the human rights of women and girls, some of which target specific groups, such as girls with disabilities, widows, and asylum-seeking and refugee women, including harassment, arbitrary arrest and detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, such as corporal punishment, rape, torture, child abduction, as well as failure by States, resulting in a climate of impunity, to exercise due diligence to prevent such violations and to adequately and in a timely manner investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators, failure by States to provide adequate protection, support and reparation for victims and their families, and failure by States to ensure access to justice; (h) Intimidation, harassment, detention of, and death threats against, women human rights defenders and their families, and disproportionate penalties and restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression of women human rights defenders when reporting on women’s rights violations, as a means of exerting pressure on them to stop their human rights work, as well as failure by States to exercise due diligence to prevent such violations, and to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators, failure by States to provide adequate protection to women human rights defenders, and failure by States to ensure access to justice; (i) Violations of the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health, of women and girls, including girls with disabilities, often caused by forced and early marriage, and restricted access to services and legal family planning methods, resulting in high rates of maternal and child mortality and sexually transmitted diseases; (j) Discrimination resulting from stereotypical practices and attitudes towards women, including in the media, education and employment; (k) Impact of legislation and practices that discriminate against women in the areas of: (i) Civil and political rights, especially right to privacy, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of movement, and participation in decision-making processes and in public life on an equal basis with men; (ii) Nationality, personal status, marriage and divorce; (iii) The right to own and inherit property; (iv) Employment and equal remuneration; (v) Education, including access to education; (vi) Budgeting and allocation of resources; (l) Differential application of punishments in law based on sex, including cruel, inhuman or degrading forms of punishment. 42 11-28654