A/HRC/17/30 mapping of major issues affecting women as users of the judiciary (e.g. as victims in the civil and criminal jurisdictions; as witnesses, particularly in cases of SGBV; and as offenders); (h) Take all necessary steps to ensure a systematic gender analysis of the judicial sector, and the incorporation of a gender perspective in the administration of justice. 92. National courts and tribunals should resort more actively to the use of comparative law and the tools available at the international level, including international customary law, international treaties, treaty bodies' jurisprudence, the conclusions and recommendations stemming from the universal periodic review (UPR) mechanism and expert analysis and advice contained in reports of thematic or country-specific special procedures of the Human Rights Council. 93. Judges and all judicial affairs staff should be adequately trained and sensitized on gender equality and women’s human rights and on strategies to avoid gender stereotyping. 3. Other recommendations 94. The Special Rapporteur encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations, in collaboration with all United Nations Agencies when appropriate, to: (a) Compile the legal analysis and doctrinal positions by the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council together with the recommendations adopted within the framework of the universal periodic review mechanism and the practice of treaty bodies, in contributing to make the human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination a reality in women's daily lives, with a view to making them available to judiciaries across countries and regions; (b) Compile, in collaboration with all United Nations Agencies, the legal analysis and doctrinal positions developed by the United Nations system, with a view to making them available to the judiciaries across countries and regions. 20

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