A/HRC/41/33/Add.1 69. In order to address all the persisting challenges that stand in the way of the realization of women’s rights, the State must accelerate its efforts. It must tackle the problem of gender inequality in a coordinated and systematic way and take comprehensive measures in all spheres of life, including the transformation of patriarchal attitudes. Particular attention should be paid to women experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination. B. Recommendations 70. In a spirit of cooperation, the Working Group has formulated the following recommendations to the State with a view to strengthening measures designed to guarantee gender equality, the empowerment of women and the promotion and protection of women’s human rights. 71. With regard to the legal framework, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; (b) Ratify the relevant ILO Conventions, including the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), and duly implement the Domestic Workers Recommendation, 2011 (No. 201); (c) Adopt the laws pending in Congress relevant to women’s rights and ensure their compatibility with international human rights standards; (d) Repeal laws prohibiting access to emergency contraception and liberalize abortion law so as to ensure access at least in cases where the pregnancy poses a threat to the life or health of the woman, where it is the result of sexual violence or in case of severe foetal impairment, as the first step; (e) Review the permissive legislation on firearms with a view to their eventual prohibition; (f) Keep the legal framework under regular and well-informed review, ensuring its compliance with international standards, to ensure a positive impact on women. 72. With regard to the institutional and policy framework, the Working Group recommends that the State: (a) Ensure the effective implementation of legislation; (b) Strengthen the autonomy, role and position of the National Institute for Women vis-à-vis other State bodies, ensuring that it obtains the necessary support and cooperation from all the relevant ministries and receives enough resources to fulfil its mandate; (c) Ensure that municipal offices for women and gender units in ministries are sufficiently funded and staffed by competent and trained personnel; (d) Allocate sufficient resources (human and financial) to programmes under the Ciudad Mujer initiative and secure their availability across the country; (e) Ensure better coordination among all concerned stakeholders so that laws and policies on women’s rights and gender equality are effective; (f) Ensure that all State entities include gender indicators in their strategic planning, with dedicated budgets; (g) Increase the budget and strengthen the human resources of the Ministry of Human Rights, which coordinates the Inter-Agency Commission to Monitor Investigations into Violent Deaths of Women and Femicide, and of the protection mechanism for human rights defenders and the Inter-Agency Commission to Combat 17