Universal-Womens-accesss-to-justice-Publications-Practitioners-Guide-Series-2016-ENG

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WOMEN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 117
Ensure gender-sensitive monitoring and independent
review mechanisms. 318
‣ Inspectorates, visiting boards and other supervisory
mechanisms established to monitor conditions of
detention of women must include women
members. 319
‣ The CEDAW Committee requires that States:
“Conduct and facilitate qualitative studies and
critical gender analysis in collaboration with civil
society organizations as well as academic
institutions of all justice systems in order to
highlight practices, procedures and jurisprudence
that promote or limit women’s full access to
justice…”. 320
‣ This requirement is supplemented by the Bangkok
Rules, which require States to undertake research
into women’s experience of confronting the criminal
justice system, and the effects of this on their
children, in order to improve policies and
programme development. The aim of such research
is to assist women to reintegrate into society and to
reduce the stigma and negative impact of women’s
criminalization on their children. 321
Article 3: A positive guarantee of women’s enjoyment of
their human rights
Article 3 of the CEDAW Convention provides that: “States
Parties shall take in all fields, in particular in the political,
social, economic and cultural fields, all appropriate measures,
318
CEDAW General Recommendation No 33, above note 232,
paragraph 48.
319
Bangkok Rules, above note 273, Rule 25(3).
320
CEDAW General Recommendation No 33, above note 232,
paragraph 20(e).