(1) Enhance its efforts to combat all forms of gender-based violence against women, including domestic and sexual violence, paying particular attention to disadvantaged groups; (2) Enact legislation to specifically define and criminalize all forms of gender-based violence against women, including marital rape, and address the prevention of violence, protection of victims and prosecution and punishment of perpetrators; (3) Take measures to encourage women who are victims of violence to report their cases, including by destigmatizing victims, providing capacity building programmes for judges, prosecutors, police officers and other law enforcement officials on how to investigate such cases in a gender sensitive manner and developing user friendly reporting guidelines; (4) Ensure that allegations of gender-based violence against women, including domestic violence, are duly investigated, prosecuted and sanctioned and that victims have access to appropriate redress, including compensation; (5) Provide mandatory training for judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials, especially those who conduct mediation in cases in which domestic violence is deemed to constitute a minor offence, on the strict application of relevant legal provisions; (6) Strengthen services for women who are victims of gender-based violence, including by establishing shelters throughout the territory of the State party and ensuring the availability of psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration programmes; (7) Systematically collect data on all forms of gender-based violence against women, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality and the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, as well as on protection orders, prosecutions and sentences imposed on perpetrators. (8) Repeal, without further delay, all remaining discriminatory provisions of the Criminal Code condoning gender-based violence against women, in particular articles 97 to 99 and 340 and ensure that rapists and perpetrators of crimes committed in the name of so called “honour” are prosecuted and punished adequately without benefiting from any mitigating or exculpatory provisions; (9) Amend the Crimes Prevention Act (1954) with a view to abolishing the practice of administrative detention, in particular the holding of women and girls who are at risk of becoming victims of gender-based violence in “protective custody”; (10) Immediately release women and girls arbitrarily placed in “protective custody”, establish appropriate shelters and mechanisms for their protection throughout the country and ensure that they consent to any protection measure extended to them.

(1) Include in its Act to Prevent Trafficking in Persons a comprehensive definition of trafficking, as well as provision for the investigation, prosecution and punishment of such acts in accordance with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and provide mandatory gender sensitive training to judges, prosecutors, border police, immigration authorities and other law enforcement officials on this law to ensure its strict application; (2) Investigate, prosecute and adequately punish all cases of trafficking in persons, especially women and girls; (3) Ensure inter agency coordination between government security, justice and social services entities to combat trafficking and strengthen their cooperation with civil society; (4) Strengthen measures to identify and provide support to women at risk of trafficking; (5) Ensure that women who are victims of trafficking and exploitation of prostitution are exempted from any liability and provided with adequate protection, such as witness protection programmes and temporary residence permits, irrespective of their ability or willingness to cooperate with the prosecutorial authorities; (6) Provide victims of trafficking with adequate access to health care and counselling, strengthen the human, technical and financial resources of social work centres and provide targeted training for social workers dealing with victims of trafficking; (7) Ensure that all victims of trafficking, irrespective of their national or social background, obtain effective protection and redress, including rehabilitation and compensation; (8) Address the root causes of trafficking and exploitation of women and girls in prostitution by adopting and implementing adequately resourced programmes and other appropriate measures to create educational and employment opportunities for women, in particular refugees and migrant workers, who are at risk of being trafficked or exploited in prostitution.