A/HRC/4/34 page 26 72. In view of the above discussions, a viable strategy in addressing the issue of culture and violence against women must include, but not be limited to, the following broad guidelines: (a) Problematizing culture as historically constructed and representing diverse subject positions and interests: (b) (i) Interrogating and negotiating culture and identifying positive elements of culture, including human rights culture, and integrating them in strategies to transform oppressive practices defended in the name of culture; (ii) Dismantling the victim narrative of specific groups of women by recording, documenting and disseminating women’s agency and common struggles in diverse settings; (iii) Recognizing the commonalities of women’s struggles of oppression that go beyond specific cultural boundaries; Applying a political-economy perspective to understanding cultural practices: (i) Addressing social, economic and political factors that underlie and reinforce harmful cultural paradigms that subordinate women; (ii) Recognizing the political and economic nature of gender inequality and the prevailing forms of violence against women; (iii) Challenging those who defend oppressive practices for women and disclose the vested interests that underpin certain practices; (iv) Recognizing that protection of rights needs not only the transformation of cultural norms and attitudes but also changing their material foundation; (c) Approaching all forms of violence against women as a continuum and intersectional with other forms of inequality: (i) Avoiding compartmentalized and selective approaches to the elimination of violence against women that de-link the problem from its underlying causes; (ii) Documenting the cross-cultural commonalities in the diverse manifestation of violence against women; (iii) Making explicit reference to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in all normative and policy