A/HRC/35/30/Add.3 Agreement Establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. 46. The Special Rapporteur welcomed the fact that at least three universities in Argentina had introduced gender studies and that the Ministry of Education had plans to include gender equality in the school curricula. However, she noted that there was no specific education on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, nor on the general recommendations and the jurisprudence of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, with regard to gender-based violence. B. Regional framework on violence and human rights 47. Argentina has also ratified the Convention of Belém do Pará, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance, the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, the InterAmerican Convention on International Traffic in Minors, the Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons, the Inter-American Convention on the International Return of Children, the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, the Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women, the Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women and the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Argentina has also recognized the competency of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Commission on Human Rights. 48. Argentina was among the countries working to integrate the Latin American Model Protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women, 50 which sets out guidelines for conducting an effective criminal investigation of gender-related killings, in accordance with States’ international obligations, into its legal system. The Specialized Unit on Violence against Women of the Public Prosecution Office of the Nation, in collaboration with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, had conducted a survey of protocols in other countries in the region and was working on systematizing the guidelines for action by public prosecution offices. C. United Nations monitoring mechanisms 49. In November 2016, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women examined the periodic report of Argentina and expressed concern 51 about the persistence of discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society; intersecting forms of discrimination and the deeprooted machismo culture, which underpin gender-based violence against women; sexual abuse at school and sexual harassment in the workplace; institutional, procedural and practical barriers faced by women in accessing justice; the persistence of gender-based violence against women in the private and public spheres; the increasing number of femicides; regional disparities in the provision of redress for victims; the lack of information on the accessibility of shelters for older women, women belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women and women with disabilities; hate crimes against lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, including reports of harassment by the police, murders of transgender women and the killing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender 50 51 12 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Latin American Model Protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women (femicide/feminicide). Available at www.un.org/en/women/endviolence/pdf/LatinAmericanProtocolForInvestigationOfFemicide.pdf. See CEDAW/C/ARG/CO/7.