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Recommended measures (4)

• 55. The Committee recommends that the State party:
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Agriculture and Food
  (a) Ensure that a gender perspective is integrated into disability studies and the human rights of women and girls with disabilities into the gender equality …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (b) Prohibit involuntary medical treatment including abortion and sterilization, without the free, prior and informed consent of the women and girls concerned, regardless of the …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (c) Establish programmes at the national and regional levels to provide access for women with disabilities to sexual and reproductive health services.

Recommended measures (11)

• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumAwareness-raising and disseminationPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care Services
  31. The Committee recommends that the State party, in close consultation with women’s groups and experts on gender-based violence prevention, increase efforts toward the prevention …
• Type of action: ResourcesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Implement the recommendations issued by the Committee on Partner Homicide, including to set up the Permanent Intimate Partner Homicide Commission and ensure that it …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Renew its National Action Plan against rape, which expired in 2022, and conduct a study on the reasons for the discontinuance of a high …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (c) Align the definition of rape with international standards, basing it on the lack of consent rather than use of force or threat.
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (d) Include capacity building on the investigation, prosecution and adjudication of domestic violence cases in the mandatory basic education for the judiciary, prosecutors, police and …
• Type of action: ResourcesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  (e) Allocate adequate resources and provide the necessary capacity-building to ensure the effective and uniform implementation of the Crisis Centre Act throughout the State party.
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Culture and Equality
  (f) Provide capacity-building to relevant law enforcement officers, health professionals and municipal employees to strengthen the identification of victims of gender-based violence among women with …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchTraining and capacity buildingResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  (g) Conduct research into the disproportionate risk of gender-based violence against Sami women to prevent and address the gender-based violence they experience within and outside …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Education and Research
  (h) Intensify monitoring of the incidence of violence in the name of so-called “honour” while taking into consideration all circumstances that may lead to the …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (i) Ensure that the provisions in the Immigration Act and Immigration Regulations are not applied in an overly restrictively way but in a way that …
• Type of action: Follow-up of recommendationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (j) Implement the recommendations in the 2022 Baseline Evaluation Report by the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.

Recommended measures (5)

47. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: ResourcesStatistics and researchTeaching and curriculum
  (a) Allocate increased resources for research on women’s health and the health impact of gender-based discrimination; integrate women’s health and gender and medicine into the …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (b) Conduct research into the disproportionately high rate of mental health issues among Sami women and develop preventive solutions and ensure that Sami women have …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (c) Provide access to contraceptives free of charge to all women and men without sufficient means to procure them.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (d) Ensure that the abortion law respects s the autonomy of women and consider the possibility of removing the involvement of an abortion board.
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelines
  (e) Develop a national plan to address the care deficit at old age with a gender lens in relation to both care recipients and formal …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and EqualityMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  29. The Committee recommends that the State party allocate equal priority to ensuring protection from gender-based hate speech as to protection from hate speech based …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: ResourcesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Culture and Equality
  27. The Committee reiterates its recommendation (CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/9, para. 23 (c)) to allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion
  45. The Committee recommends that the State party review its pension scheme from a gender perspective, taking into consideration that disproportionate burden of unpaid care …

Recommended measures (2)

25. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (a) Continue awareness-raising and efforts to promote equal sharing between women and men of care responsibilities, including professionally, while avoiding conveying messages that may reinforce …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (b) Develop strategies to address stereotypes about the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society that may result in …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResourcesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Culture and Equality
  23. Considering the weakening of important rights owing to the pandemic, and the need to draw, at a global level, lessons from this disruptive crisis, …

Recommended measures (3)

43. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Labour and Social Inclusion
  (a) Ensure the effective implementation of criminal and administrative legislation for the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace with special attention to sectors with …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Provide capacity-building programmes to judges and law enforcement officials to facilitate effective access to protection and independent and confidential complaint mechanisms for victims of …
• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion
  (c) Ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization.

Recommended measures (2)

21. The Committee recalls that the State party cannot absolve itself of its due diligence obligation to provide victim support services by delegating these services to non-governmental organizations. It recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Restructure the free legal aid scheme, applying a gender perspective and taking into consideration the frequently more limited financial means of women and their …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Ensure that victims of crimes under section 107a (1) (a) or (b) of the Criminal Procedure Act continue to benefit from the free legal …