13. States and the AU should accelerate the establishment of the Pan African Human Rights Institute; 14. The AU should speed up the process for the adoption of the Transitional Justice Policy; and 15. The African Commission should monitor transitional justice in Africa. PART TWO: CONCERNING ACTIVITIES OF SPECIAL MECHANISMS IN RELATION TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS, the African Commission declares: A. Rights of Women in Africa: 16. States should ensure the full ratification, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol; 17. States should ensure access to information and services in the area of sexual and reproductive rights and access to safe abortion; 18. States should strengthen access to justice for victims of sexual violence and other forms of violence against women, and work towards strengthening justice systems and eradicating a culture of impunity; 19. States should ensure the full reparation of victims of sexual violence, particularly in the contexts of conflict; 20. States should decriminalize abortion so as to reduce the number of unsafe abortions in Africa; and 21. States should address the issue of child marriage, giving special regard to the legitimate age of marriage as prescribed under the Maputo Protocol and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. B. Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa: 22. States should provide indigenous women with the necessary support in the preservation and protection of their traditional knowledge as they are, in most indigenous communities, the custodians of traditional knowledge together with the elderly; 23. States should work towards the recognition of the traditional collective land tenure systems of indigenous populations and adoption of expedient and inexpensive procedures for the issuance of title deeds, and to ensure that indigenous women have equal access to land; 24. States should work in close collaboration with indigenous communities and organizations as well as other stakeholders for the elimination of harmful traditional practices within indigenous communities and in this regard, create a conducive environment and platforms for the active involvement and participation of indigenous women in the process; and 25. States should redouble their efforts to ensure that indigenous girls and women have access to education, in order to contribute to their eventual empowerment. C. Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons: 26. The AU should speed up the process of adopting the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa; 27. States should ratify and implement the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention), and adopt legislation, policies and programmes to eradicate statelessness, and provide for these measures in their national budget; 28. States should take the necessary measures to adequately address the migrant crisis, including by tackling the root causes of the phenomenon;