A/HRC/41/42/Add.2 (ii) Enacting a federal law on combating and preventing violence against women and domestic violence on the basis of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and general recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Nos. 19 (1992) on violence against women and 35 (2017) on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19; (c) Expand the definitions of family and domestic violence to cover all forms of gender-based violence against women, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence in residential settings and online violence and harassment, and bring them into line with article 38 (3) of the Constitution; (d) Expedite the adoption of the national strategy and action plan on gender empowerment and ending gender-based violence and allocate adequate resources for its implementation (see CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/6, para. 21 (b)), ensuring that it is implemented in line with general recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Nos. 19 and 35, and adopt a specific national action plan on violence against Dalit and indigenous women that includes appropriate temporary special measures to accelerate their full participation in decision-making. This would be in line with the commitments made under articles 22 and 23 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; (e) Take urgent steps to appoint a Commissioner on Women’s Rights and provide the National Women’s Commission with adequate budgetary and human resources for implementing, monitoring and evaluating activities related to combating violence against women; (f) Strengthen efforts aimed at ensuring systematic and institutionalized coordination among the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, the focal points for gender equality and social inclusion of the National Women’s Commission and provincial and local women’s offices, as well as among all relevant stakeholders, including the National Human Rights Commission and non-governmental organizations; (g) Expand the activities of the National Human Rights Commission in particular in relation to receiving complaints from women who have been victims of rape and sexual violence, including during the conflict, and of gender-based violence; (h) Provide mandatory training through the National Judicial Academy to all members of the judiciary, including members of judicial committees, and law enforcement officers on the rights of women and on gender-sensitive investigation and interrogation procedures in cases of gender-based violence against women, in line with the commitments made during the second cycle of the universal periodic review (see A/HRC/31/9, para. 122.46); (i) Encourage women to report incidents of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, and ensure that all cases of gender-based violence against women are effectively investigated and that perpetrators are prosecuted and adequately punished; (j) Implement the necessary legislative or other measures to prohibit mandatory mediation and conciliation in cases of gender-based violence against women, in line with general recommendation No. 35 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (para. 45); (k) Take immediate measures to ensure that the necessary legislative and other measures are taken to ensure that the statute of limitations for initiating any legal proceedings with regard to rape and other sexual violence shall continue for a period of time that is sufficient and commensurate with the gravity of the offence in 17