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Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should systematically collect disaggregated data on harmful practices in the State party and report them to the Committee in its next periodic …
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should strengthen primary and secondary education on gender stereotypes, prejudice, gender identity and gender roles, including on various forms of stereotypes affecting …
• Type of action: ResourcesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of CultureMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls and women in the media …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should step up the implementation of the action plan against hate speech, which should provide for a monitoring mechanism to assess the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should amend section 185 of the Penal Code to add gender to the list of actions that qualify as criminal hateful expressions.

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should reinforce programmes aimed at combating gender segregation in the education sector at all levels, including with respect to non-traditional educational and …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should consider introducing temporary special measures, such as a mandatory statutory quota, to ensure the equal representation of women in high-level academic …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should reduce the dropout rate at the upper secondary level for girls and boys with a migration background or whose parents have …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: ResourcesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should increase its resource allocation to improve the quality of education in northern and remote areas in the State party with a …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should extend the right to preschool education to asylum-seeking children living in reception centres.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should take targeted measures to improve the school attendance and educational attainment of Roma children, including by rolling out effective programmes such …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should provide students born overseas with support tailored to their specific needs to complete upper-secondary education.
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should provide adequate training and tools for teachers to confidently deal with an increasingly diverse student population.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The Committee recommends that the State party take effective measures to reduce the income inequality and intensify its efforts to eradicate poverty, particularly child poverty …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should discontinue preventive detention for children.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should where detention is unavoidable, ensure that children are not detained together with adults, both in pretrial detention and after being sentenced, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should strengthen safeguards to ensure that isolation as a preventive measure is avoided to the greatest extent possible.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should make the necessary legislative amendments to extend the application of the alternative form of sanction, the so-called juvenile sanction, to asylum-seeking …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The Committee reiterates its recommendation (see CAT/C/NOR/CO/6-7, para. 10) that the State party should abolish the use of police detention cells beyond the 48-hour term …

Recommended measures (9)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should develop and implement comprehensive measures for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should strengthen the capacity of the police, prosecutors and judges on the strict application of relevant criminal law provisions and gender-sensitive investigations …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should systematically implement gender training and capacity-building for judges and lay judges in criminal cases involving gender-based violence, in line with the …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should collect and report to the Committee disaggregated data on the number of: (i) Cases of violence against women that have been investigated …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should devise an action plan for enhanced prevention, protection and redress of gender-based violence, in particular sexual violence, against Sami women and …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should adopt a legal definition of rape in the Penal Code that places lack of free consent at its centre, in line …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should accelerate the development and adoption of a new national plan of action against rape and sexual violence.
• Type of action: ResourcesPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should provide sufficient numbers of shelters for women victims of violence to avoid the need for the relocation of women victims in …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should take the necessary measures to overcome the existing practical and legal impediments surrounding reverse attack alarm systems in order to enhance …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansConsultationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should proceed with plans to launch a new national plan of action to eliminate violence against women and girls, with a focus …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should amend section 291 of the Penal Code to ensure that the lack of free consent is at the centre of the …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should facilitate the reporting of rape and gender-based violence cases by, inter alia, systematically informing women and girls of their rights and …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationTraining and capacity buildingPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should strengthen its efforts to raise public awareness of the adverse impact of sexual and gender-based violence. Continue to train judges, prosecutors …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should investigate further the root causes of higher levels of violence against women in the Sami community. Take effective measures to address …