(1) Intensify efforts to combat gender-based violence against women, including femicide and domestic violence, by ensuring that such acts of violence are effectively investigated and prosecuted and adequate sentences imposed on the perpetrators; (2) Ensure that women are protected from psychological violence and abuse exerted by their husbands during divorce proceedings, including through the imposition of appropriate sanctions by courts; (3) Implement a policy of zero tolerance of sexual harassment, ensuring the full prosecution and punishment of all such acts perpetrated against women and girls; (4) Expedite the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Violence against and harassment of women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (1) Immediately put an end to all human rights abuses and violations perpetrated against women and girls in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and remove any restrictions on freedom of movement; (2) Combat impunity for human rights violations and ensure remedies for victims; (3) Ensure that the practice of night raids complies with due process guarantees and rights under the Convention.

(1) Ensure that the Office of the National Anti-Trafficking Coordinator strengthens the mechanisms for the early identification of women and girls who are victims of trafficking; (2) Strengthen the coordination between the entities responsible for monitoring the implementation of the laws combating trafficking and exploitation of prostitution; (3) Provide information in its seventh periodic report on the extent of exploitation of prostitution in the State party and on the mechanisms in place to identify victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation or for the exploitation of labour in the agricultural sector; (4) Enhance bilateral, regional and international cooperation to prevent trafficking, including by exchanging information and harmonizing legal procedures to prosecute traffickers.

Take further legislative and educational measures to eliminate polygamous and forced marriages, in particular among the Arab and Bedouin communities.

(1 Repeal discriminatory provisions governing divorce that give men the unilateral power to grant consent to divorce (get) and, in the interim, intensify the use of criminal sanctions for husbands who deliberately withhold consent, and expand the supervisory powers of rabbinical courts in ensuring compliance with their orders in that respect; (2) Introduce an option for individuals to contract a civil marriage and to divorce in civil courts, at least when civil marriages are contracted outside the State party; (3) Harmonize religious laws governing marriage and divorce with the Convention; (4) Undertake a study to assess the impact of the “tender years” clause and the introduction of joint child custody on the increase in the number of custody disputes, the increased level of poverty experienced by female-headed households and the use of joint custody or the threat of such use as a tool applied by men to extort concessions from women; (5) Intensify efforts to enforce the prohibition of bigamy and polygamous marriages, as well as the retroactive cancellation of a divorce, through the strict imposition of sanctions, as already introduced in the civil service, and through educational and awareness-raising programmes.