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(s) Ensure that schools, curricula and textbooks are not promoting
fundamentalist or extremist ideology, or discrimination or violence against
women;
(t) Act effectively to combat fundamentalism and extremism but refrain
from violating human rights or international law in so doing.
99.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that civil society and experts:
(a) Document the role of fundamentalist and extremist ideology in
abuses of women’s human rights by State and non-State actors and campaign
against those abuses and the ideologies that give rise to them;
(b) Support women human rights defenders who are combating
fundamentalism and extremism, and avoid undermining their work;
(c)
Decline to partner with or whitewash fundamentalists or extremists;
(d) Submit cases concerning fundamentalist and extremist abuses of
women’s cultural rights to treaty bodies under relevant complaints procedures.
100. The Special Rapporteur recommends that relevant United Nations treaty
bodies consider:
(a) Adopting general comments about the human rights impact of
fundamentalism and extremism, including on women;
(b) Systematically addressing the impact on women’s human rights of
diverse forms of fundamentalism and extremism, where relevant.
101. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the United Nations and other
intergovernmental bodies:
(a) Organize an international expert meeting on the human rights
impact of fundamentalism and extremism across regions, including the impact
on women’s human rights;
(b) Guarantee the participation of representatives from women’s
organizations who have been working on these issues in all relevant
international meetings;
(c) Develop a fully gender-inclusive action plan, in collaboration with
artistic civil society and women human rights defenders, to secure the safety of
women artists at risk from fundamentalists and extremists;
(d) Develop a set of guiding principles for effectively combating
fundamentalism and extremism, including their impact on women’s human
rights, in accordance with international law.
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