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(v) Ensure that the authorities at the entity level rem ove restrictive and
discriminatory provisions from their legislation and policies relating to redress
for civilian victims of war, including survivors of wartime sexual violence;
(vi) Adopt, without delay, the revised national strategy for processing war
crimes, in which a timeline is defined for the prosecution of all war crimes by
2023, so as to accelerate the prosecution of crimes of sexual violence committed
during the conflict in the 1990s;
(vii) Establish a fund to provide compensation and other for ms of reparation to
women who are victims of war crimes;
(viii) Provide timely gender-sensitive training for judges, lawyers, law
enforcement officials, administrative personnel, and social workers on the
application of international standards with regard to combating gender-based
violence against women, and on the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto
and the Committee’s jurisprudence and general recommendations, in particular,
general recommendations No. 19 (1992) on violence against women
(HRI/GEN/1/Rev.8), No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict
and post-conflict situations (CEDAW/C/GC/30), No. 33 and No. 35 (2017) on
gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation
No. 19 (CEDAW/C/GC/35);
(ix) Harmonize war crimes legislation throughout the State party and ensure
that it is consistently applied in accordance with the Convention and other
international standards, including the Council of Europe Convention on
Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
(Istanbul Convention);
(x) Implement expeditiously the Committee’s recommendations, in particular
those on combating violence against women, contained in its concluding
observations on the sixth periodic report of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(CEDAW/C/BIH/CO/6).
11. In accordance with article 7 (4) of the Optional Protocol, the State party shall
give due consideration to the views of the Committee, together with its
recommendations, and submit to the Committee, within six months, a written
response, including information on any action taken in the light of those views and
recommendations. The State party is requested to publish the Committee’s views and
recommendations and to have them widely disseminated in order to reach all sectors
of society.
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