A/74/191 26. The Law on Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina of 2003 stipulates that existing laws will be revised to harmonize them with international and national standards on gender equality, as well as allocating budgets for related activities. 22 27. The Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of Serbia has established a gender-responsive budgeting committee, which is responsible for collecting gender sensitive data, conducting gender analysis and following up on corresponding programming objectives. 23 28. Since 1984, more than 40 countries have introduced some form of gender budgeting, with different rates of success. 24 For example, in Romania, Law No. 202/2002 requires the mainstreaming of gender and gender-responsive budgeting in all governmental strategies and institutions. 25 Andorra has established that gender mainstreaming is required in all public actions, in accordance with Law No. 6/2014, including the provision of social services and health care. 26 3. Gender-responsive foreign policy 29. A number of countries have prioritized gender responsiveness in their foreign policies. Sweden, for example, became the first country to formulate and pursue a feminist foreign policy. In its Handbook on Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, Sweden indicated that it “has also prioritized the issue of safe workforce migration with decent conditions, particularly for women”. 27 4. Gender responsiveness in migration-related legislation and policies 30. References to the specific needs of migrant women and girls appear more frequently in the context of asylum legislation and policies. Such references were less systematic in general migration-related legislation and policies. Migration-related legislation and policies that appear to be gender neutral 31. Many migration legislation and policies are gender neutral, limiting themselves to implying that migrants have equal rights that they are able to access irrespective of their gender, race, colour or ethnic origin. 28 However, gender-neutral legislation or policies can still have gender-specific impacts or be experienced differently by different genders. 32. This is the case of Argentina, where Law No. 25.871 of 2004, formalized through the Decree 616 of 2010, established that everyone has the right to migrate. In addition, it provides fundamental freedoms for all migrants, such as equal access to social services, including health and education, justice and work, independent of migratory status. It also establishes the right to family reunification with parents, __________________ 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 8/24 See submission of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina. See submission of the Permanent Mission of Serbia to the United Nations. Janet Stotsky, “Budgeting with women in mind”, Finance & Development, June 2007, vol. 44, No. 2. See submission of the Romanian Institute for Human Rights. See submission of the Permanent Mission of Andorra to the United Nations. See submission of the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations and Government of Sweden, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Handbook: Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, 2014 (https://www.government.se/4abf3b/contentassets/fc115607a4ad4bca913cd8d11c2339dc/ handbook-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy), p. 83. Like other countries, Slovenia has incorporated the need for gender mainstreaming in its Asylum Act No. 480/2002. It requires that bodily search and interview of asylum applicants b e undertaken by a member of the same sex (see submission of the Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the United Nations). 19-12287