BOX 4. NHRIS’ COMMITMENTS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: THE AMMAN DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION (CONT.) Additionally, the Amman Declaration and Programme of Action contains the following broad principles and areas of work for NHRIs of relevance to reproductive rights: • Principle 4: Respond to, conduct inquiries into and investigate allegations of violations of women’s and girls’ human rights, including...violations of reproductive rights... These investigations and reports should result in recommendations to the State to meet their obligations to ensure women’s and girls’ human rights, and to combat impunity; • Principle 9: Monitor and encourage the implementation of ...resolutions of United Nations intergovernmental bodies, including the General Assembly, Human Rights Council, Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the Commission on Population and Development (CPD); • Principle 11: Forge strategic partnerships with United Nations agencies such as UN Women, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and OHCHR to strengthen cooperation with, and the capacities of, NHRIs to more effectively promote and protect women’s and girls’ human rights; and • Principle 16: Prioritize and promote the human rights of women and girls and gender equality through their engagement with all international and regional human rights mechanisms, and in their engagement with global processes such as ... the ICPD Beyond 2014 Global Review. Regarding this last principle and area of work, NHRIs have engaged actively in various stages of the ICPD beyond 2014 Global Review, including the International Conference on Human Rights held in the Netherlands in July 2013. Echoing the commitments made by the ICC of NHRIs in Amman, the Human Rights Conference recommended the strengthening of NHRIs and ombudspersons to inquire broadly into sexual and reproductive rights issues, including investigating individual complaints; making recommendations directly to governments on alleged human rights violations; and reviewing national laws and policies relating to sexual and reproductive rights, including those which are discriminatory or criminalize access to sexual and reproductive health information, education and services. 34