UN Compilation >> Togo, Review Documentation, 40th Session, January 2022

The HR Committee recommended that Togo redouble its efforts to prevent and combat all forms of violence against women, including by: (a) amending the Criminal Code to include a specific definition of domestic violence, to establish domestic violence as a separate offence and to align the penalty prescribed for marital rape with that prescribed for rape in general; (b) considering the adoption of a comprehensive law, in consultation with civil society, to prevent, combat and punish all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, in the public and the private domains; ... (d) pursuing its awareness-raising efforts and developing new intervention strategies, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to eradicate female genital mutilation. [Para 38]