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(d) Provide safeguards to protect women detainees from all forms of
abuse, including gender-specific abuse, and ensure that women detainees are
searched and supervised by properly trained women staff;
(e) Ensure that personnel assigned to work with female detainees
receive training relating to the gender-specific needs and human rights of
women detainees in line with the Convention as well as the United Nations
Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for
Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules);
(f)
Formulate policies and comprehensive programmes that ensure the
needs of women prisoners are met, in respect of their dignity and fundamental
human rights.
7.10 In accordance with article 7, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol, the State
party shall give due consideration to the views of the Committee, together with its
recommendations, and shall submit to the Committee, within six months, a written
response, including any information on any action taken in the light of the views
and recommendations of the Committee. The State party is also requested to publish
the Committee’s views and recommendations and to have them translated into the
official national languages and widely distributed in order to reach all relevant
sectors of society.
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