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collection and protection, including data disaggregated by various grounds. OHCHR in
Guatemala has conducted studies and published manuals on racial, ethnic and gender-based
discrimination against indigenous women.
56.
Civil society organizations have also conducted research on the issue. In its
submission, the European Network against Racism reported that it and civil society
organizations in France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had
published a variety of reports exclusively on or containing information about discrimination
and violence against women and girls based on various grounds.
C.
Monitoring and protection
57.
Some countries have put in place or expanded national and multilateral mechanisms
for monitoring and protection in order to improve the access of specific groups of women
and girls to medical assistance, justice and protection from violence. Turkey has established
a support programme for women and girl survivors of human trafficking that provides them
with access to health, psychosocial support, legal and social services, education and
training, access to the labour market, material support and information. In Mexico, the
National Commission for the Development of Indigenous People offers training to
advocates from indigenous communities, translators and public servants on the recent
reforms of the penal system. At May 2016, the Commission facilitated the release of 386
indigenous women from prison.
58.
Canada, Mexico and the United States of America have established the North
American Working Group on Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls. In the context
of this initiative, the United States of America launched the first crisis line for Alaska
native survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and released the first set of uniform
clinical care guidelines for the identification of and response to intimate partner violence
within a system of medical care and referral that is patient-centred, culturally sensitive and
trauma-informed. The United States of America also provides funding to States and State
and tribal coalitions to develop more effective responses to violence against women from
American Indian and Alaska native populations, and specific cultural and linguistic
populations.
D.
Capacity-building of professional categories
59.
In their submissions, some States explained that they were implementing initiatives
to address discrimination and violence against specific groups of women and girls by
building the capacity of the judiciary, law enforcement agencies and health-care providers
in the use of gender- and culturally sensitive approaches. The United States of America
trained and provided technical assistance for crime victim service providers and allied
professionals to address language and cultural barriers that intersect with gender in
policing, as well as other intersectional issues throughout the criminal justice system.
Mexico sought to strengthen indigenous women’s access to justice by building the capacity
not only of the judiciary but also of translators and advocates from indigenous
communities. Mexico has also developed a module for providing culturally sensitive
obstetric health services to its indigenous and Afro-descendent populations. Spain has
designed a protocol for assistance provided in the context of violence against women in the
Roma community, which includes measures to build the capacity of technical personnel
working on the issue. The protocol was part of the national strategy for the social inclusion
of the Roma population in Spain.
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