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outcomes and impact of laws, and record detailed results for the sharing of promising
and good practices.
2.
Specific recommendations
Social change
110. The cultivation of a culture of human rights is needed for social change and
requires specific measures that draw from the richness and complexity of particular
contexts and histories, and that involve all sectors of society, including autonomous
women’s movements. As exemplified by the cases in the present report, good practices
result from sustained processes that benefit from the dynamic interaction brought by
a diverse range of actors and involve responsivity to changing situations in order to
ensure ongoing fulfilment of equal rights.
111.
The Working Group recommends that States:
(a)
Invest in long-term and multi-dimensional strategies to promote social
change, including extensive training, educational and awareness-raising measures to
promote a culture of human rights among right and duty holders alike;
(b)
Ensure the active participation of women of all sectors of society in
monitoring and implementing human rights.
Sustainability
112. It is essential to ensure that a robust constitutional and legal framework is in
place to support long-term rights implementation and to weather challenges that may
come from regressive political or ideological forces that threaten to undermine
progress. The Working Group recommends that States:
(a)
Recognize the crucial role of autonomous women’s organizing in the
development of good practices, and endeavour to create a legal, policy and budgetary
framework to support autonomous civil society organizations, women’s movements,
and citizen participation in legal development, reform and implementation;
(b)
Apply the good practices framework for the creation and maintenance of
a safe and enabling environment for civil society developed in the report of the High
Commissioner (A/HRC/32/20), with a gender-sensitive lens that takes into account the
unique position and challenges faced by women’s human rights defenders;
(c)
Prioritize the allocation of funds, both internationally and domestically,
to support active and sustained measures to promote good practices in the eradication
of discrimination and the promotion of women’s empowerment.
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