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legal systems, where they exist, comply with international human rights obligations,
commitments and principles, including the principle of non-discrimination;
(c) Evaluating and assessing the impact of current legislation, rules and
procedures regarding violence against women and the reasons for low reporting,
reinforcing, where necessary, criminal law and procedure relating to all forms of
violence against women and, where necessary, incorporating into law measures
aimed at preventing violence against women;
(d) Promoting awareness among all stakeholders of the need to combat
violence against women, and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of
women, inter alia, through regular and repeated use and funding of
awareness-raising campaigns and other ways to promote prevention, such as
international, regional and national conferences, seminars, training, publications,
brochures, websites, audiovisual material, social media, television and radio spots,
and debates, as appropriate;
(e) Ensuring that there is sufficient knowledge, including expertise in
effective legal approaches to eliminating violence against women and girls,
awareness and coordination in the legal system and, to that end, where appropriate,
appointing a focal point in the legal system for cases of violence against women and
girls;
(f) Ensuring the systematic collection and analysis of data to monitor all
forms of violence against women, including on the effectiveness of measures to
prevent and address such violence, with the involvement of national statistical
offices and, where appropriate, in partnership with other actors, in order to review
and implement effectively laws, policies, strategies and preventive measures, while
ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the victims;
(g) Establishing appropriate national mechanisms for monitoring and
evaluating the implementation of national measures, including national action plans,
taken to eliminate violence against women, including through the use of national
indicators;
(h) Providing adequate financial support for the implementation of national
action plans to end violence against women and other relevant activities;
(i) Allocating adequate resources to promote the empowerment of women
and gender equality and to prevent and redress all forms and manifestations of
violence against women;
(j) Adopting all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education,
from the entry levels of the education system, to modify the social and cultural
patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, in order to promote the
development of respectful relations and to eliminate prejudices, customary practices
and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of
the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women, and by raising awareness of
the unacceptability of violence against women and girls at all levels, including
through schools, teachers, parents, youth organizations and teaching materials
sensitized on gender equality and human rights;
(k) Empowering women, in particular women living in poverty, by, inter alia,
strengthening their economic autonomy and by ensuring their full participation in
society and in decision-making processes, through, inter alia, social and economic
policies that guarantee them full and equal access to all levels of quality education
and training and to affordable and adequate public and social services, as well as
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