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(e) Consider signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court;7
(f) Develop, review and implement laws and procedures to prohibit and
eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls;
(g) Take measures, including programmes and policies, to ensure that
maternity, motherhood and parenting and the role of women in procreation are not
used as a basis for discrimination nor restrict the full participation of women in
society;
(h) Ensure that national legislative and administrative reform processes,
including those linked to land reform, decentralization and reorientation of the
economy, promote women’s rights, particularly those of rural women and women
living in poverty, and take measures to promote and implement those rights through
women’s equal access to and control over economic resources, including land,
property rights, right to inheritance, credit and traditional saving schemes, such as
women’s banks and cooperatives;
(i) Mainstream a gender perspective into national immigration and asylum
policies, regulations and practices, as appropriate, in order to promote and protect
the rights of all women, including the consideration of steps to recognize genderrelated persecution and violence when assessing grounds for granting refugee status
and asylum;
(j) Take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination and violence
against women and girls by any person, organization or enterprise;
(k) Take necessary measures for the private sector and educational
establishments to facilitate and strengthen compliance with non-discriminatory
legislation.
69. (a) As a matter of priority, review and revise legislation, where appropriate,
with a view to introducing effective legislation, including on violence against
women, and take other necessary measures to ensure that all women and girls are
protected against all forms of physical, psychological and sexual violence, and are
provided recourse to justice;
(b) Prosecute the perpetrators of all forms of violence against women and
girls and sentence them appropriately, and introduce actions aimed at helping and
motivating perpetrators to break the cycle of violence and take measures to provide
avenues for redress to victims;
(c) Treat all forms of violence against women and girls of all ages as a
criminal offence punishable by law, including violence based on all forms of
discrimination;
(d) Establish legislation and/or strengthen appropriate mechanisms to handle
criminal matters relating to all forms of domestic violence, including marital rape
and sexual abuse of women and girls, and ensure that such cases are brought to
justice swiftly;
(e) Develop, adopt and fully implement laws and other measures, as
appropriate, such as policies and educational programmes, to eradicate harmful
customary or traditional practices, including female genital mutilation, early and
forced marriage and so-called honour crimes, which are violations of the human
rights of women and girls and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women of their
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