A/HRC/41/33 B. Recommendations 80. International human rights law has long required that States take appropriate action to modify social and cultural practices based on ideas of the inferiority or superiority of either sex or on stereotyped gender roles. In order to ensure that such stereotypes are not embodied in law, policy and practice or institutionalized, resulting in women’s deprivation of liberty, States should: (a) Modify or eliminate all laws based on stereotyped gender roles, in alignment with international human rights standards, including any laws giving men and society control over women’s decisions, mobility and morality; (b) Put in place mechanisms to provide opportunities for support to all women to exercise their autonomy and agency, eliminate laws that allow women to be arbitrarily stripped of legal capacity and/or placed under guardianship and guarantee respect for their informed consent at all times; (c) Ban laws and practices policing, targeting, punishing or confining women in relation to consensual sexual or reproductive behaviour or decisions, including sex work/prostitution, termination of pregnancy or expressions of sexuality; (d) Put an end to practices of protective institutionalization of survivors or those at risk of gender-based violence and women with disabilities; (e) Promulgate and implement laws prohibiting harmful traditional, cultural, social or religious practices that lead to the confinement of women and girls, including child and forced marriages and the seclusion of menstruating women and widows; (f) Provide mandatory, recurrent and effective capacity-building, education and training on the elimination of gender bias and the obligations of States regarding international standards for justice and law enforcement officers, medical personnel, legislators and any other actors who may be involved in decision-making regarding women’s deprivation of liberty; (g) Ensure that educational curricula throughout all levels and types of schooling include training on women’s human rights norms as the basis for gendersensitive education; (h) Promote and support the implementation of awareness programmes to combat gender stereotypes in the family, community and social and formal institutions; (i) Support and protect women’s engagement in public and political life, including the work of women human rights defenders, and eliminate any laws or policy measures designed to criminalize the public roles of women. Put in place quotas or similar measures for the meaningful participation of women in the political and public sphere. 81. Women’s lack of access to economic opportunities, resources and services constricts their choices and creates economic insecurity, and often results in their confinement. In order to minimize deprivation of liberty resulting from women’s poverty, States should: (a) Provide universal adequate, accessible and affordable education, health, legal and social services, and expand social protection systems in a manner that does not discriminate on the basis of gender and incorporates an intersectional and a women’s human rights perspective; (b) Eliminate laws and practices that perpetuate discrimination within the family and the community, and institute and intensify efforts to ensure the awareness and accountability of family and community members, including traditional and religious leaders; 18