E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 appeared to reveal a consistent pattern of reliably attested injustice and discriminatory practices against women; (b) Preparation of a report, based on its analysis of the confidential and non-confidential communications, which would indicate the categories in which communications were most frequently submitted to the Commission. 6. The Working Group noted that a number of communications of a general nature had been submitted as opposed to communications alleging specific cases of discrimination against individual women and girls. It also noted that several communications had brought to light the issue of the use of firearms in cases of domestic violence. 7. The Working Group discerned the following categories in which communications had most frequently been submitted to the Commission: (a) Sexual violence against women and girls, including rape, gang rape, forced prostitution, threats of rape, sexual harassment and incitement to sexual violence through gender stereotyping and the promotion of rape in new media, committed by private individuals, teachers, detainees, and military, security and law enforcement personnel, including in detention-related situations, 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 to provide adequate protection and support for victims and their families, including medical and psychological care, and failure to ensure access to justice; (b) Other forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence and especially domestic violence committed with firearms, trafficking, forced and early marriage and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation, 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 to provide adequate protection and support for victims and their families, including medical and psychological care, and failure to ensure access to justice; (c) Abuse of power by military, security and law enforcement personnel, humiliation, lack of due process, arbitrary arrest and detention, failure to grant a fair trial and impunity resulting from failure by States to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators; (d) Physical and psychological threats and pressure on victims of violence, their families and witnesses by private individuals and law enforcement officials in order to prevent them from filing complaints, or force retraction of complaints or testimony; (e) Inhumane treatment in detention and inadequate conditions of imprisonment for women, in particular pregnant women and mothers with children born in detention, including failure to separate women and men detainees, failure to provide women inmates with access to basic medical care, failure to develop an adequate complaint mechanism for women inmates victim of gender-based violence as well as failure by States to sufficiently address such situations; 10-30576 89

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