A/67/227 (b) States should revoke any remaining laws that discriminate on the basis of sex/gender against women with disabilities and address gender bias against women with disabilities in the administration of justice; (c) States should improve and expand disaggregated data collection (gender, age, disability), including on the prevalence, manifestations, causes and consequences of violence against women with disabilities; (d) Appropriate training materials on the prevention of and response to violence against women with disabilities for all sectors should be developed, in collaboration with women with disabilities, thereby enhancing the relevance of the materials and the skills of disabled peoples; (e) Country-level reforms to improve health-care services and facilities in general, including in respect of sexual and reproductive health, should be adopted. More specifically, reforms are necessary in order to reduce unnecessary imprisonment of individuals with disabilities; (f) States should ensure that the justice sector is responsive to and supportive of women with disabilities who report cases of violence; should support innovative justice services, including one-stop shops, legal aid and specialized courts, in order to ensure substantive and procedural access to justice; and should involve women with disabilities in shaping and restructuring the legal system; (g) Good practices in respect of alternatives to prison custody, for people with disabilities, should be developed; (h) Efforts should be made to ensure that publications, presentations and other media products feature women with disabilities, thereby recognizing the importance of media images in changing perceptions, eliminating discrimination and ending violence; (i) Women with disabilities should be allowed the opportunity and provided with the necessary accommodations to enable them to participate fully in forums discussing the empowerment of women and gender equality. Collaboration within women’s rights groups and disabled peoples organizations and with other stakeholders involved in activities to combat violence against women should be enhanced with a view towards including women with disabilities in related dialogue, strategy and institution-building processes; (j) States should be encouraged to respond to requests for information by relevant United Nations mechanisms; (k) United Nations agencies and programmes should be increasingly engaged in the issue of violence against women with disabilities, including in the production of specific reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (l) Establishment of a mechanism by which the special procedures of the Human Rights Council can collaborate with the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission on Social Development should be encouraged. 12-45120 23

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