(1) Expedite the adoption of the draft law for the protection of vulnerable persons, which includes a framework for the assistance of victims of sexual violence; (2) Ensure that the prevention of gender-based sexual violence, ending impunity towards such violence and reparations for the victims will be given priority in the gender-based violence strategy that is under review and allocate adequate human, technical and financial resources for the implementation of the strategy; (3) Ensure that domestic violence, including marital rape, is explicitly prohibited and provide adequate sanctions for perpetrators; (4) Address the stigma owing to which women and girls who are victims of violence are discouraged from reporting cases of violence, through awareness-raising campaigns on the criminal nature and the gravity of all forms of gender-based violence; (5) Ensure that women and girls who are victims of gender-based violence have access to effective remedies and immediate means of redress and protection, including shelter, and provide adequate support to existing services provided to victims by non-governmental organizations; (6) Further implement awareness-raising campaigns throughout the country to combat the discriminatory stereotypes fuelling gender-based violence; (7) Systematically collect data on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions of, and convictions for, gender-based violence against women and information on the sentences imposed on perpetrators.

(1) Expedite the adoption of the draft law on combating trafficking in persons and develop and implement a new national action plan in collaboration with women's organizations and the relevant United Nations entities in that respect, including regarding the elaboration of a study on the extent and root causes of trafficking and forced prostitution in the State party; (2) Provide the new agency and the national committee on combating trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling with adequate human, technical and financial resources; (3) Investigate, prosecute and adequately punish perpetrators of trafficking for forced labour, exploitation and forced prostitution of women and girls, including in artisanal mines and conflict areas, and ensure that victims of trafficking and forced prostitution are exempted from criminal liability; (4) Provide training for law enforcement officers and border control personnel on combating trafficking in women and girls, and on the early identification of victims and their referral to appropriate services and intensify efforts to ensure the early identification of women and girls exploited by armed groups and provide them with rehabilitation and reintegration services; (5) Provide counselling, legal services, rehabilitation and social integration programmes for women and girls who are victims of trafficking.

The Committee recommends that the State party put into place, without delay, a comprehensive strategy, in conformity with articles 2 (f) and 5 (a) of the Convention, to eliminate stereotypes and harmful practices that discriminate against women, including by making a concerted effort, within a clear time frame, in collaboration with Parliament, civil society, the school system, health professionals, the media and traditional leaders, to educate and raise awareness about negative gender stereotypes in a manner that targets women and girls, as well as men and boys, at all levels of society.

(1) Repeal the remaining discriminatory provisions of the revised Family Code, including the provision that the husband is the head of the household, and conduct awareness-raising campaigns to disseminate the revised Family Code, targeting in particular women from rural areas and indigenous communities, as well as traditional chiefs and parents; (2) Repeal the legal provisions making the registration of marriages conditional on the provision of a dowry and make it unlawful for dowries to be required or given; (3) Accelerate the translation of the national action plan to end child marriage for the period 2017–2021 into operational plans to ensure its implementation in all the provinces, mobilize sufficient financial resources for its implementation, sensitize traditional chiefs, priests and parents on the action plan and the new minimum age of marriage collaborate with women and their representative organizations and cooperate with the relevant United Nations entities; (4) Prosecute and sanction persons who are engaged in facilitating child marriages or adults married to children; (5) Further sensitize traditional leaders on the importance of eliminating discriminatory practices, such as polygamy and levirate marriage, in close collaboration with women, their representative organizations and the relevant United Nations agencies; (6) Eliminate traditional practices that impede women's rights to inheritance and land ownership and intensify its efforts to enable women and girls to exercise their right to inheritance on an equal basis with men and boys.