A/HRC/7/66 page 18 • Encourages the Government to incorporate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women into national law, develop an implementation strategy for the three gender bills passed by Parliament in 2007, strengthen the capacity of family support units, reform the rape laws and embark upon national awareness-raising of women’s rights and gender-based violence in order to address the growing insecurity of women in the country comprehensively • Encourages the Government to ratify outstanding international and regional human rights treaties and to incorporate them into national law, in particular the Optional Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women, and to make concerted efforts to comply with reporting obligations of various international treaty bodies • Recommends the establishment of a ministry to directly work with the National Human Rights Commission and to coordinate human rights activities within the Government. -----

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