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The National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women for 2013-2022 adopted by the
government in 2013 includes a number of commitments relevant to these issues:
To research: violence against women and girls in urban and rural areas (10.a.1); causes and
consequences of violence (10.a.2); social services for women affected by violence, along
with legal protective measures, and the challenges faced by women accessing these
services. (10.a.3); satisfaction levels with the responses duty bearers give to women and
girls who report violence (10.a.4); effectiveness of agencies working on women’s rights
(15.a.3); representation of women in human rights bodies (15.a.5).
Raise awareness about: prevention of and responses to violence (10.b.1), including by
judges (10.b.3) police (10.b.4) and the media (10.b.5); harmful customary laws and
gender discriminatory practices (13.b.3); existing laws that have a direct positive impact on
the rights of women (15.b.2); the rights of women amongst the general public (15.b.3).
To implement: practical initiatives in ministries on the inclusion of human rights, sex and
gender equality in education (8.c.1); community-based initiatives in preventing and
responding to violence (10.b.6); increasing women’s participation in such prevention
(10.b.7); legal action (10.c.5); new laws and policies (10.d.3) and including women in
their development (10.d.4); initiatives giving priority to women’s rights and security in the
workplace (12.c.6), including women in development of these policies (12.d.4); national
statistics, surveys and information management systems relating to the analysis of data on
the status of human rights, including the areas of marriage and inheritance (15.c.1);
CEDAW (15.c.2); efficient mechanisms to ensure the rights of women are fulfilled at
national, regional, state, district, township and community/village level (15.c.3);
community-based initiatives to raise public awareness on the rights of women (15.c.4);
improved coverage on the rights of women in the media (15.c.5); revision, development and
application of existing civil, religious and customary laws so as to protect, promote and
fulfil the human rights of women and girls (15.d.2); development and implementation of
policies to protect and promote the human rights of women in accordance with the
recommendations of key stakeholders and international laws and instruments (15.d.3).
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