preventive measures aimed at the elimination of all
forms of violence against women and girls;
increasing poverty, causing their living conditions
to deteriorate, generating violence and limiting or
denying them the full enjoyment and exercise of all
their human rights;
(e) Review, where appropriate, national legal and other
mechanisms, including the criminal justice system,
to ensure equality before the law so that women
and girls can seek protection, shelter and remedies
against all forms of discrimination, including intersectional discrimination;
(i) Ensure the full and equal opportunity for the sus-
tained participation and representation of indigenous women and girls and women and girls, as
appropriate, from culturally diverse backgrounds in
all relevant decision-making processes;
(f) Review, where appropriate, policies and laws,
(j) Ensure that the Commission on the Status of
Women takes into account in its work the impact
of all forms of discrimination, including multiple
discrimination on women’s advancement;
including those on citizenship, immigration and
asylum, for their impact on the elimination of all
forms of discrimination against women and the
achievement of gender equality,
(k) Acknowledge the ongoing work of the Committee
(g) Design and implement policies and measures that
on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women and the Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination in taking into account
the impact of multiple forms of discrimination on
women’s advancement and the achievement of
gender equality.
address all forms of violence against women and
girls, and empower victims of all forms of violence,
in particular women and girls, to regain control over
their lives, inter alia, through special protection and
assistance measures;
(h) Devise, enforce and strengthen effective measures
to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking
in women and girls through a comprehensive
anti-trafficking strategy consisting of, inter alia,
legislative measures, prevention campaigns, information exchange, assistance and protection for and
reintegration of the victims and prosecution of all
the offenders involved, including intermediaries;
2. Policies, legal measures, mechanisms
and machineries
(a) Establish and/or strengthen, where appropriate, leg-
islation and regulations against all forms of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including their gender-based manifestations;
(i) Develop and implement policies to ensure the full
(b) Condemn all forms of racism and racial discrimina-
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental
freedoms by all women and girls regardless of race,
colour, descent or national or ethnic origin;
tion, including propaganda, activities and organizations based on doctrines of superiority of one
race or group of persons that attempts to justify or
promote racism or racial discrimination in any form;
(j) Take measures, as appropriate, to promote and
strengthen policies and programmes for indigenous
women with their full participation and respect for
their cultural diversity, to combat discrimination
based on gender and race, to ensure their full enjoyment of all human rights;
(c) Take concrete measures to promote equality based
on the elimination of gender and racial prejudice
in all fields, through, inter alia, improving access to
education, health care, employment and other basic
services to promote full enjoyment of economic,
social and cultural rights for all women and girls;
(k) Review and revise, as appropriate, emigration
policies with a view to eliminating all discriminatory
policies and practices against migrants, especially
women and children, and to protect fully all their
human rights, regardless of their legal status, as
well as to provide them with humane treatment;
(d) Take measures to address, through policies and pro-
grammes, racism and racially motivated violence
against women and girls and to increase cooperation, policy responses, effective implementation
of national legislation and other protective and
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