A/HRC/16/39 awareness of the availability of social services and legal remedies and ensure protection against victimization. 43. With regard to Ukraine, the Committee invited the State party to provide comprehensive information and statistical data in its next periodic report on the situation of vulnerable groups of women, such as migrant and refugee women, women belonging to ethnic minorities, in particular Roma women, and on the measures taken to eliminate discrimination against these women with regard to their access to, inter alia, health, education, employment and social benefits (CEDAW/C/UKR/CO/7). Forty-sixth session (12 – 30 July 2010) 44. In relation to the report submitted by Albania (CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/3), the Committee recommended that the State party should intensify its efforts to the promote access of girls and women living in rural or remote areas, including minority girls and women, to education and their retention at all levels of education. The Committee also recommended that temporary special measures should be applied in order to ensure the equality of women and men in their access to property, capital and credits, health-care services, housing and, more generally, all the components of an adequate standard of living, particularly with regard to women belonging to disadvantaged groups, including linguistic and ethnic minorities, as authorized by the comprehensive article 8 of the Law on Gender Equality in Society of 2008. 45. In its concluding observations regarding the report of Australia (CEDAW/C/AUL/CO/7), the Committee reiterated the recommendation from its previous concluding observations (CEDAW/C/AUL/CO/5, para. 17) that the State party should fully utilize the Sex Discrimination Act and consider the adoption of temporary special measures, in accordance with article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25, in order to increase further the number of women in political and public life and to ensure that the representation of women in political and public bodies reflect the full diversity of the population, including indigenous women and women from ethnic minorities. 46. The Committee called on the Russian Federation to pay special attention to the needs of women and girls belonging to ethnic minorities, and to adopt comprehensive antidiscrimination legislation aimed at protecting ethnic minorities (CEDAW/C/USR/CO/7). The Committee requested that comprehensive information be included in the next periodic report of the State party on the impact of measures taken and the results achieved in the implementation of policies and programmes for these women and girls. 47. In reviewing the report submitted by Turkey (CEDAW/C/TUR/CO/6), the Committee called upon the State party to take effective measures to eliminate discrimination against women of ethnic and minority communities, migrant women, women asylum-seekers and elderly women, as well as women with disabilities, both in society at large and within their communities, particularly in the areas of education, health, employment and political and public life. Forty-seventh session (4 – 22 October 2010) 48. The Committee recommended that the Czech Republic should design and take preventive measures specifically targeted at Roma and migrant women and girls, including awareness-raising campaigns on trafficking, forced prostitution and forced labour for those working with Roma communities, and strengthen cooperation with countries of origin and destination (CEDAW/C/CZE/CO/5). 11

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