A/HRC/21/22 In all cases, remedies should be accessible, affordable, timely and effective, which will require adequate funding, capacity and mandates. 77. Judicial remedies have a key role to play in relation to sexual and reproductive health rights, including: (a) Ensuring the implementation of existing laws and policies; (b) Reforming laws, policies and budgets that do not adequately protect sexual and reproductive health rights; (c) Challenging discriminatory barriers to sexual and reproductive health care; (d) Providing redress for violations of sexual and reproductive health rights in practice. 78. National human rights institutions should also promote accountability with regard to sexual and reproductive health rights by, inter alia, investigating violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights; monitoring implementation of legislation, performance of selected institutions, court judgements and recommendations made by international human rights bodies; and organizing public hearings and education campaigns about maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights. 79. To ensure the effective use of remedies, the State must systematically raise awareness about the applicability of claims relating to women’s sexual and reproductive health rights among lawyers, judges and the public, and provide adequate funding for accountability mechanisms. 80. Systems of effective recourse depend on parliamentarians supporting improved accountability for violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights, including by addressing physical, economic and other barriers to recourse systems, especially for vulnerable or marginal groups; lack of timely relief; lack of awareness of remedies; inadequacy of existing causes of action to secure redress; and deficiencies in funding, mandate, independence or competencies of national human rights institutions. VI. International assistance and cooperation 81. All development partners should contribute to the creation of a social and international order in which human rights, including women’s sexual and reproductive health rights, may be realized.48 Human rights obligations with regard to advancing global health, including sexual and reproductive health, call for shared approaches and systems of collective responsibility together with a global development agenda that centrally reflects issues of social and environmental sustainability, equality and respect, and the fulfilment of human rights. Underlying issues concerning maternal mortality and morbidity, such as gender equality and sustaining effective and an equitable health system, are challenges faced in countries of all income levels. 82. Obligations of international assistance and cooperation require States in a position to assist to do so. They require States that can demonstrate their lack of available resources to 48 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 28. See also the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (available from www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/63/43911948.pdf), para. 13 (c).