E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 Commission those communications, including the replies of Governments, which appeared to reveal a consistent pattern of reliabl y 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 had communications alleging specific cases of discrimination against individual women and girls. 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 and rape within the family, sexual abuse, including sexual abuse of minors and incest, and sexual harassment, including in the workplace and in schools and universities, committed by private individuals and military and law enforcement personnel; (b) Other forms of violence against women and girls, including targeted killings of women, such as so-called “honour” killings, domestic violence, physical assault, harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation and child and forced marriage, abduction for the purpose of marriage, forced sterilization, including of HIV-positive women, sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation; (c) Abuse of power by law enforcement officials and military personnel, lack of due process and delays in proceedings, arbitrary arrest and detention and failure to grant a fair trial and prevent impunity; (d) Pressure exerted on victims of violence and their fear of reporting cases due to anticipated stigma and reprisals from family, the community and employers, often preventing them from filing complaints; (e) Inadequate conditions for women in detention and penitentiary systems and degrading treatment and torture of and physical and sexual violence against those women; (f) Serious and systematic violations of the human rights of women and girls, some of which target vulnerable and marginalized groups, including discrimination, harassment, degrading treatment and sexual violence; (g) Intimidation, harassment, including judicial and sexual harassment, and detention of and violence and sexual violence against women human rights defenders as a means of exerting pressure on them to stop their activities; (h) Violations of the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights as stipulated in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, of women and girls, including in detention, and restricted access to health -care services; (i) Discrimination against women resulting in the loss of child cust ody to abusive fathers; 16-05842 55/62

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