empowerment, sensitizing and educating communities, religious leaders, traditional chiefs and political leaders on women’s sexual and reproductive rights as well as training health-care workers. 45. The obligation to fulfil rights requires that State Parties adopt relevant laws, policies and programs that ensure the fulfilment de jure and de facto of women’s sexual and reproductive rights, including the allocation of sufficient and available resources for the full realization of those rights. Specific obligations of the State Enabling legal and political framework 46. State parties should provide a legal and social environment that is conducive to the exercise by women of their sexual and reproductive rights. This involves revisiting, if necessary, restrictive laws, policies and administrative procedures relating to family planning/ contraception and safe abortion in the cases provided for in the Protocol, as well as integrating the provisions of the said legal instrument into domestic law. 47. State parties should ensure that the necessary legislative measures, administrative policies and procedures are taken to ensure that no woman is forced because of her HIV status, disability, ethnicity or any other situation, to use specific contraceptive methods or undergo sterilization or abortion. The use of family planning/contraception and safe abortion services by women should be done with their own informed and voluntary consent. 48. State parties should ensure that laws, policies and administrative procedures aimed at ensuring women’s access to family planning/contraception and safe abortion services in the cases provided for in the Protocol are respected and implemented. State parties should particularly ensure that health services and health care providers do not deny women access to contraception/family planning and safe abortion information and services because of, for example, requirements of third parties or for reasons of conscientious objection. 49. State Parties must ensure that law practitioners, judges and magistrates and judicial police officers get adequate training and are sensitized on respecting and implementing the individual rights and the State’s obligations guaranteed by the Protocol, so that women are not arrested, charged and prosecuted because they have sought safe abortion services or post-abortion care to which they are entitled. 50. Measures facilitating access to family planning /contraception and safe abortion services, when provided for by law, should be realized by State parties including through: the establishment of accountability mechanisms; development of implementation standards and guidelines; a monitoring and evaluation framework, and availing accessible, timely and efficient redress mechanisms for women whose sexual and reproductive rights have been violated. 13