42.
States should encourage the use of alternative sentencing in the criminal justice system and establish or
designate independent national bodies mandated to undertake regular visits to prisons as well as establish
or designate Independent Civilian Police Oversight Institutions, where civilians can freely access and
report/complain about cases of abuse and allegations of torture committed by the police;
43.
States should conduct independent and timely investigation into any assault, including sexual assault, or
death in corrective or pre-detention custody, and bring the perpetrators to justice expeditiously;
44.
States should increase the number of female police officers and provide women’s units in prisons with
adequate facilities for female inmates and in particular female inmates with children; and
45.
States should develop training programmes and provide sufficient human rights training, including training
on women’s rights to prison and police officers.
G. Protection of the Rights of People Living with HIV, and those at risk, vulnerable to and affected
by HIV:
46.
States should develop multi-layered approaches and invest in integrating systems to break the silos. These
systems must respond to adolescent girls and young women’s needs, including the availability of integrated
sexual and reproductive health and non-communicable diseases services, and routine vaccination and
cervical cancer screening;
47.
States should integrate services against gender-based violence into HIV services, in particular by
establishing a well-functioning referral system that includes post-rape care services; and
48.
States should incorporate Option B+ into National Programmes for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child
Transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT), take measures to promote the involvement of men in monitoring their
wives’ pregnancies, and provide training to health workers on ethical standards and protection of the rights
of women in the process of administering healthcare.
H. Freedom of Expression and Access to Information:
49.
States should enact access to information laws in accordance with the African Commission’s Model Law on
Access to Information in Africa, and ensure effective implementation of the laws;
50.
States should establish measures to ensure protection of journalists and other media practitioners,
especially female journalists, and to end impunity with regards to attacks on journalists and other media
practitioners;
51.
States should repeal criminal defamation laws or insult laws which impede the right to freedom of expression,
and to implement Article 9 of the African Charter and the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of
Expression in Africa (the Declaration);
52.
States should ensure that access to the Internet is not unreasonably limited; and
53.
The African Commission should encourage State Parties to commemorate the International Day for
Universal Access to Information on 28 September annually.
I.
Human Rights Defenders:
54.
States should take appropriate measures to recognize the work of Women Rights Defenders;
55.
States should develop programmes to train law enforcers on women’s rights;