CEDAW/C/76/D/116/2017 (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. 16/16 20-11100

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