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Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and EqualityMinistry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
  21. The Committee recommends that the State party make use of temporary special measures, in accordance with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the …

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• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Climate and EnvironmentMinistry of Energy
  15. The Committee recommends that the State party review its climate change and energy policies, specifically its policy on the extraction of oil and gas, …

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• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  17. The Committee recommends that the State party maintain its dedication to ensuring the effective implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace …

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• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and Equality
  50. The Committee calls upon the State party to use the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, in its efforts to implement the provisions of …

Recommended measures (3)

19. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and Equality
  (a) Ensure that the restructuring of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud does not weaken their mandates for the promotion …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and Equality
  (b) Strengthen the resources of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, who will be stripped of the mandate of dealing with individual cases, so as to …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (c) Renounce the envisaged budget cuts for non-governmental organizations providing legal aid to vulnerable groups of women, and allocate sufficient human, technical and financial resources …

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13. The Committee calls upon the State party:

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plans
  (a) Include a gender-sensitive rather than gender-neutral approach in its legislation, policies and programmes, in line with paragraph 5 of the Committee’s general recommendation No. …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Finance
  (b) Strengthen the gender equality and non-discrimination requirements in the assessment procedure instructions.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and Equality
  (c) To take the necessary measures to ensure that the new Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act does not erode structural activities for the promotion of gender …

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27. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Systematically collect comprehensive data about victims of trafficking and report them to the Committee in its next periodic report.
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Adopt a human rights-based approach in its efforts to combat trafficking, and prioritize the prevention of trafficking and retrafficking, the protection of victims and …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (c) Create a uniform national system for identifying and following up on women victims of trafficking, ensuring the continuity of rights and entitlements when there …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (d) Revise immigration policies to ensure that laws and policies on the deportation of foreign women are not applied in a discriminatory manner, do not …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  53. The Committee notes that the adherence of the State party to the nine major international human rights instruments would enhance the enjoyment by women …

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25. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Develop and implement comprehensive measures for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence and rape and …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Strengthen the capacity of the police, prosecutors and judges on the strict application of relevant criminal law provisions and gender-sensitive investigations of cases of …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (c) Systematically implement gender training and capacity-building for judges and lay judges in criminal cases involving gender-based violence, in line with the Committee’s general recommendation …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (d) Collect and report to the Committee disaggregated data on the number of: (i) Cases of violence against women that have been investigated and that have …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Local Government and Regional Development
  (e) Devise an action plan for enhanced prevention, protection and redress of gender-based violence, in particular sexual violence, against Sami women and girl victims, including …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (f) Adopt a legal definition of rape in the Penal Code that places lack of free consent at its centre, in line with the Committee’s …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (g) Accelerate the development and adoption of a new national plan of action against rape and sexual violence.
• Type of action: ResourcesInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  (h) Provide sufficient numbers of shelters for women victims of violence to avoid the need for the relocation of women victims in the event of …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (i) Take the necessary measures to overcome the existing practical and legal impediments surrounding reverse attack alarm systems in order to enhance their use as …

Recommended measures (4)

33. The Committee recommends that the State party:

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Adopt the proposed amendments to its nationality and citizenship laws to allow for dual citizenship to reduce the risk for foreign spouses, upon dissolution …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Ensure birth registration of children born to refugee and asylum-seeking women.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (c) Review the threshold for proving partner abuse in the context of the requirement for obtaining permanent residence status of three years of temporary residence, …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (d) Review immigration laws and policies to ensure that they do not have disproportionate consequences for ethnic minority, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls.