RECOMMENDATIONS

• Fulfil its stated commitments to ensure that womens human rights are protected: human rights violations such as torture, including rape, extrajudicial executions and harassment and death threats against women activists, must be brought to an end. This would be in line with the governments constitutional obligations to ensure that women gain full participation and equality in Mexican society and is an essential first step if such a goal is to be reached;
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• Conduct prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into all reports of disappearances, extrajudicial executions and torture, including rape and sexual abuse, as well as death threats and harassment;
• Take effective steps to ensure that those responsible for extrajudicial execution, disappearance, torture, including rape and sexual abuse, and harassment and death threats against women, are brought to justice;
• Ensure that cases of such human rights violations perpetrated by members of the security forces are investigated and tried under civilian jurisdiction and not by the military courts, which have been responsible for ensuring the virtually complete impunity of members of the security forces responsible for human rights violations;
• Ensure that victims of rape, sexual abuse and other torture or ill-treatment, together with relatives of victims of disappearance or extrajudicial execution, receive fair and adequate compensation and appropriate medical care;
• Ensure that law enforcement personnel and other government agents receive adequate training on national and international standards which protect the human rights of all women, and instruction on how to enforce them properly. Law enforcement personnel and other government agents should be instructed that rape of women in their custody is an act of torture and will not be tolerated;
• Guarantee that women activists and members of non-governmental organizations working peacefully for the promotion and protection of human rights can carry out their legitimate activities without risk of intimidation, harassment or physical attack;
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• Ensure that special steps are taken to uphold the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and other relevant international standards, including the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
•  These steps should include a clear prohibition of gender-based violence.

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