A/HRC/35/30/Add.3 80. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Adopt a comprehensive strategy targeting women, men, girls and boys to overcome the machismo culture and discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society; (b) Continue systematic efforts to raise awareness about the different forms of violence against women, in cooperation with civil society. Office of the National Ombudsman 81. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Appoint an ombudsman immediately; (b) Provide adequate financial resources to the Office of the Ombudsman to enable it to fully comply with its mandate, especially with respect to its work on violence against women and the femicide observatory; (c) Encourage all relevant institutions to support and cooperate with the Ombudsman and the femicide observatory. Collection of data on femicide and other forms of violence against women 82. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Establish or support femicide observatories or watches in all provinces, tasked with collecting data on all cases of femicide or gender-related killing of women and analysing each case in order to identify any protection failures with a view to improving and developing further preventive measures; (b) Collect and publish disaggregated data at the federal and provincial levels on all forms of violence against women, including transvestites, transgender women, women with disabilities, indigenous women and migrant women, with particular focus on femicide; (c) Conduct regular surveys to assess the prevalence and trends of different forms of violence against women, including sexual harassment. 83. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government revise the Criminal Code to provide for ex officio prosecution for all acts of violence against women so that investigations into or prosecution for such offences shall not be dependent upon a report or complaint filed by the victim and for proceedings to continue even if the victim withdraws her or his statement or complaint. 84. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the federal and provincial governments, in particular the Ministries of Education and Health, provide adequate funding for the implementation of Law No. 26.150 on the National Programme for Comprehensive Sex Education and: (a) Include sexual and reproductive health education in the curricula of all schools throughout the country; (b) Intensify efforts to distribute contraceptives free of charge, in particular in informal settlements and low-income areas. Reducing maternal mortality by, inter alia, ensuring access to safe legal abortions and post-abortion services for women and girls 85. The Special Rapporteur recommends that: (a) In the short term, as a matter of urgency, the provincial authorities should adopt the necessary protocols regulating legal abortions in line with the current Criminal Code and the Supreme Court interpretation on the matter, and in line with general recommendation No. 24 (1999) on women and health of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; (b) The punitive measures criminalizing women who undergo abortions be removed and a law regulating legal abortions be adopted, at least for pregnancies 19