United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition. Estimates 2021.
(1) Give high priority to the adoption of the anti-gender-based-violence bill with a strategy and adequate resources for its implementation, and the systematic collection of data on the incidence and resolution of gender-based violence, disaggregated by sex, age and relationship between the victims and the perpetrator and in relation to intersecting forms of discrimination against women and other relevant sociodemographic characteristics, such as disability;
(2) Amend the Penal Code to specifically criminalize marital rape, base the definition of rape on the absence of free consent and ensure that penalties for gender-based violence against women and girls are commensurate with the gravity of the offence;
(3) Ensure that shelters and victim support services are adequately funded, accessible and inclusive, that staff are trained and that the quality of services is regularly monitored;
(4) Build the capacity of the judiciary, prosecutors, the police and other law enforcement officers to systematically investigate and prosecute all cases of gender-based violence, using gender-sensitive procedures, and adequately punish perpetrators, regardless of their social position, and provide appropriate remedies to victims;
(5) Intensify efforts to raise awareness among both women and men, including through educational and media campaigns, of the criminal nature of gender-based violence against women in order to challenge its social acceptance, and destigmatize and protect women from reprisals to encourage them to report incidents of gender-based violence against women.
(1) Ensure that all harmful practices against women and girls are criminalized, and prosecute and adequately punish perpetrators of such acts;
(2) Expand public education programmes, in collaboration with civil society organizations and the media, on the negative impact of harmful practices on the enjoyment by women and girls of their rights, targeting traditional and religious leaders and communities in rural and remote areas.
(1) Expedite the finalization and adoption of an inclusive and comprehensive family law, with the engagement of women's civil society groups and traditional and religious leaders, establishing the minimum age of marriage at 18 years for both women and men, prohibiting the harmful practices of “bride price” and polygamy, and ensuring equal rights of women and men to inheritance and as testators, heirs or beneficiaries, including in Muslim communities;
(2) Provide systematic capacity-building on women's equal rights in marriage and family relations and upon their dissolution, as well as on women's equal inheritance rights, for judiciary and traditional justice system actors, including the custodians of customary law, and women and girls themselves, especially in rural and remote areas of the country;
(3) Ensure access to justice and effective remedies for women who have been dispossessed of housing, land and property in divorce, inheritance and widowhood disputes, and provide legal aid and support programmes to the women concerned.
(1) Strengthen the accessibility and affordability of civil registration procedures, such as the prompt issuance throughout the State party of birth certificates, to strengthen age verification, and of marriage certificates, with a view to preventing certain forms of trafficking;
(2) Systemize the collection of disaggregated data on the extent of trafficking in women and girls in the State party and use these data to create a gender-sensitive approach to identifying, assisting and protecting victims, ensuring that the data are systematically shared across all first responders, including medical staff, immigration and justice officials and civil society organizations;
(3) Ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and adopt national anti-trafficking legislation, in line with the Protocol;
(4) Equip labour inspectors with a mandate and the resources to inspect both formal and informal places of work, and establish safe and easily accessible complaint procedures for victims of trafficking.
<u><a target="_blank" href="https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2F… ">OHCHR, CEDAW Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of South Sudan, 11 November 2021, CEDAW/C/SSD/CO/1.</a></u>
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