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g)
h)
prevent and condemn tra fficking in women, prosecute the
perpetrators of such trafficking and protect those women
most at risk;
prohibit all medical or scientific experiments on women
without their informed consent;
i)
provide adequate budgetary and other resources for the
implementation and monitoring of actions aimed at
preventing and eradicating violence against women;
j)
ensure that, in those countries where the death penalty
still exists, not to carry out death sentences on pregnant or
nursing women;
k)
ensure that women and men enjoy equal rights in terms of
access to refugee status determination procedures and that
women refugees are accorded the full protection and
benefits guaranteed under international refugee law,
including their own identity and other documents.
Article 5
Elimination of Harmful Practices
States Parties shall prohibit and condemn all forms of harmful
practices which negatively affect the human rights of women and
which are contrary to recognised international standards. States
Parties shall take all necessary legislative and other measures to
eliminate such practices, including:
a)
creation of public awareness in all sectors of society
regarding harmful practices through information, formal
and informal education and outreach programmes;
b)
prohibition, through legislative measures backed by
sanctions, of all forms of female genital mutilation,
scarification, medicalisation and para-medicalisation of
female genital mutilation and all other practices in order to
eradicate them;