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The Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice recommended that the Government: (a) ensure a comprehensive approach to combating gender-based violence against women, and the full compatibility of laws regulating domestic violence with international standards, by broadening the scope of its definition and coverage, including a gender-sensitive focus on the specific concerns of women, and the implementation of effective emergency barring orders; ... (c) ensure the efficiency of the proceedings for issuing restraining orders; (d) improve services for victims/survivors of gender-based violence and their access to justice, in particular women in vulnerable situations, such as minority women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, migrant women and sex workers, including access to shelter for the period needed, as well as preferential access to municipal housing assistance; ... [Para 39]
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