A/HRC/29/40 (iv) Develop effective mechanisms to combat the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination suffered by all marginalized women, including minority women, women living in poverty, women with disabilities, refugee and displaced women, migrant and immigrant women, rural women, indigenous women, older women and single women; (b) Promote a culture free of discrimination: (i) Establish an executive body that applies the due diligence framework (prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and redress), addressing all forms of discrimination against women in cultural and family life, including by non-State actors; (ii) Reject any cultural or religious practice that violates human rights and the principle of equality or prevents the establishment of an egalitarian society free of gender-based discrimination; (iii) Punish institutions, State officials and non-State actors whose actions threaten women’s rights, even where the grounds for such actions are the preservation of culture and religion; (c) diversity: Guarantee women’s de jure and de facto right to equality in family (i) Recognize and protect, in their constitutions and laws, all forms of family, and affirm and protect women and girls’ right to equality in family diversity, by adopting and implementing appropriate measures to protect women from exploitation and discrimination in diverse families, particularly women living in vulnerable situations; (ii) Eliminate in law and in practice all forms of marriage that restrict and/or deny women and girls’ rights, well-being and dignity, including early and/or forced marriage, polygamous marriage and temporary marriage; (iii) Establish appropriate solutions, remedies and redress to ensure respect for the rights and well-being of women and girls living in the forms of marriage referred to above, including the possibility for them to leave such marriages with their share of the matrimonial assets, custody of their children and the right to remarry; (iv) Eliminate all laws or practices that restrict the rights and opportunities of widows or divorced women, but not widowers or divorced men, to remarry, work, have guardianship or custody of their children, and own the family home, assets and land; (v) Repeal all laws that support the patriarchal oppression of women in families, such as laws that exclude marital rape from the crime of rape, laws that grant pardon to rapists who marry their victims and laws that criminalize adultery; (vi) Prohibit and punish domestic violence, including incest and marital rape, and provide measures to protect women and girls who are victims of such violence, such as protection orders and shelters; (vii) Respect, protect, fulfil and promote the right to gender equality in the family in the various types of legal system – secular family law systems, Stateenforced religious family law systems and plural legal systems. The adoption of a family code or personal status laws free of any reference to culture or religion is encouraged; 18 GE.15-07003

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