A/HRC/40/65 training for parliamentarians. Staff with expertise in human rights should be available to support parliamentarians and enable them to systematically identify key questions concerning human rights and the rule of law and raise them with the executive. 21. Parliamentarians should hold the executive to account for the human rights impact of measures, policies and practices. This includes requesting from government clarification on the human rights and rule-of-law impacts of draft legislation, and ensuring that every piece of legislation is assessed for human rights compliance throughout the legislative process. 22. Parliamentarians should play a leading role in the implementation of and follow-up to recommendations made by international human rights mechanisms. They should call for the establishment of a national mechanism for implementation, reporting and follow-up, be involved in the work of such a mechanism, and ensure an integrated approach to the implementation of human rights mechanisms’ recommendations, including through the development of national human rights action plans. 23. Parliaments should develop human rights committees, subcommittees and caucuses. A culture of human rights should be built across the parliament and human rights should be made part of mainstream political discourse. Parliamentarians should ensure that budgets are analysed from a human rights standpoint and are inclusive, fair and responsive to the needs of all people. 24. As democratic governance depends on parliament’s detailed oversight of government, States should strengthen the parliament’s mandate and capacity for oversight, including by providing adequate resources and professional support. Oversight should be a parliamentary priority and be conducted constructively in a systematic, continuous and evidence-based way. Parliamentarians should build public support for more parliamentary oversight. Rules and practices of parliamentary committees should be tailored to support oversight. 25. States should address the discrimination and structural inequalities affecting the capacity of members of marginalized or minority groups to participate in parliamentary work and stand for parliament. They should eliminate all legislative, physical, financial and cultural barriers, and consider introducing temporary special measures, such as quotas, with the aim of increasing participation of these groups so that parliaments can more fully reflect, and represent, the populations they serve. 26. States should address the discrimination and structural inequalities affecting women’s participation in politics and parliament. They should consider introducing temporary special measures, such as quotas, with the aim of increasing women’s participation and ensuring adequate gender balance. 27. States, the media, civil society and others should defend parliamentarians’ enjoyment of their own human rights, support parliamentarians under threat, and protect them from violence, intimidation and reprisals. Parliaments should adopt the necessary legal framework and put in place internal mechanisms to protect their members from reprisals for carrying out their work. Parliaments and their members should promote and engage in interparliamentary cooperation to monitor and advocate for the protection of the rights of parliamentarians, in particular by acting in support of the resolution of cases before the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians. 7