A/HRC/30/66 regulations concerning dress and freedom of movement. Women must be fully covered while in public and are only allowed to move in public in the company of an appropriately related male chaperone. Severe forms of punishment are imposed for non-compliance, including fines, lashings and even execution. 32. ISIL continued to target female community and political leaders, subjecting them to abduction, torture and murder. UNAMI/OHCHR continued to receive reports that women and girls held by ISIL, particularly those from ethnic and religious minority communities such as the Yezidi and others, are subjected to harrowing acts of sexual and physical violence and to sexual slavery. UNAMI/OHCHR believes that there may still be as many as 3,500 women and children, and some men, predominantly Yezidi, but also other ethnic and religious communities who are still being held by ISIL. Sexual violence appears to be used by ISIL as a deliberate tactic in targeting diverse ethnic and religious communities. 33. UNAMI/OHCHR works with a range of counterparts, including government actors, institutions, civil society groups and women’s right defenders to monitor women’s rights to raise awareness and build capacity of local actors. For instance, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, UNAMI is working with the Directorate for Combating Violence against Women to promote respect for key human rights standards and to raise awareness about violations against women. 34. In mid-May, UNAMI/OHCHR met with a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Iraq High Commission for Human Rights to discuss concerns regarding allegations of violations and abuse of internally displaced persons perpetrated by security forces, including alleged sexual violence. On 2 June, UNAMI/OHCHR also met with the Chairperson of the Committee on Women of the Basra Provincial Council to discuss the protection of civilians and the vulnerability of women and girls during armed conflict. It provided technical advice on the responsibility of State actors and actions to be taken to ensure the protection of women and girls. 35. UNAMI/OHCHR will also seek to implement, inter alia, a number of projects to strengthen the Iraqi legal system and institutions, in particular to address sexual and genderbased violence and to promote gender equality in compliance with international human rights law; to further increase participation of human rights defenders and journalists, including women, in public life at the international, national and local levels; and to increase access to psychosocial support for victims of torture and sexual and gender-based violence. 2. Children 36. Children have been the victims of violence associated with the hostilities and been severely affected by the denial of access to humanitarian assistance and the disruption to education caused by the ongoing conflict. UNAMI/OHCHR also continued to receive reports of forced recruitment and use of children in hostilities by ISIL. 37. The ISIL recruiting campaign continued, with reports in mid-May that ISIL fighters were visiting high schools in Mosul and demanding that students as young as 14 pledge allegiance to the group and to fight in its forces. ISIL subsequently announced at schools and universities that all male students must join ISIL after completing their exams. ISIL posted videos on the Internet purporting to show children being taught its ideology and trained to become fighters. The children in the videos appeared to be as young as 12. Another video appeared to show captured Yezidi children as young as seven being indoctrinated. UNAMI/OHCHR received reports that ISIL has used children as fighters in areas of Sinjar and Zummar in Ninewa Governorate. 8