A/HRC/41/33/Add.1 Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons, to ensure the enforcement of human rights and gender equality in the country; (h) Take all necessary measures to ensure that the Office of the National Commissioner for Human Rights regains its A status; (i) 73. Shift the focus of security policies from militarization to human security. With regard to access to justice, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Ensure women’s access to justice, addressing the gaps stressed in the present report; (b) Ensure that free and quality legal aid is provided to women who do not have the necessary financial resources; (c) Ensure that all the current reforms within the justice system duly incorporate a gender focus. 74. With respect to family and cultural life, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Undertake sustainable educational strategies and awareness-raising campaigns aimed at addressing gender stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes and beliefs; (b) Ensure that the media do not promote stereotypes and gender-based violence, and raise their awareness on violence against women and human rights defenders; (c) Ensure that health policies are not under the undue influence of any particular religious doctrine or a set of beliefs; (d) Recognize diverse family forms. 75. With respect to political and public life, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Ensure the effective implementation of the law on quotas; (b) Provide the necessary support to women candidates, address political violence against women and promote women’s participation in political life; (c) Conduct sustainable awareness-raising campaigns to prevent violence against women in politics and effectively investigate cases; (d) End the criminalization and judicial harassment of women human rights defenders, protect them from violence (including by private actors) and investigate crimes against them; (e) Ensure that the protection mechanism established by the State duly integrates a gender perspective and addresses the particular needs of women human rights defenders; (f) Take all necessary measures to secure justice for Berta Cáceres and her family, in accordance with international standards, and duly sentence the main instigators of the crime. 76. With respect to economic and social life, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Take measures to increase labour participation by women, particularly of women experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination, including measures to ensure work-life balance; (b) Take measures to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work and provide for adequate social protection; (c) Measure the impact of measures such as the Better Life programme and the National Solidarity Loan Programme for Rural Women to check that they do 18

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