A/72/155 (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. 17-12043 23/23

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