110 Pledges 2011 - Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons Recalling its adoption of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Pledges to: 1. Improve the entry systems to allow refugees, asylum-seekers and other groups with specific needs to be identified and granted access to the national territory by: a) building the capacity of border officials, b) creating exceptional procedures for large-scale influx for ensuring the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers and providing protection in accordance with fundamental principles. 2. Improve the implementation of its refugee status determination procedures and ensure efficiency and consistency with high standards. More specifically by: a) ensuring age, gender and diversity sensitivity in the asylum system, b) lifting language barriers during hearings and interviews, c) focusing on refugee status determination expertise, d) assuming greater responsibility for refugee status determination. 3. Ensuring security for all Rwandan citizens including all Rwandan refugees who remain in exile and encouraging them to return home so that they can participate in the development of their country, utilizing the skills they have gained in the various Countries of Asylum and thus enjoying the privilege that is being offered to all citizens. 4. Improve the extent to which asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless people, especially women and girls, have access to their rights and enjoy protection and assistance by: a) clarifying for asylum adjudicators that gender-related forms of persecution are recognized grounds for refugee status, b) providing access for victims of discrimination, violence, harassment, rape and sexual abuse, to effective complaints mechanisms and legal remedies, including legal counselling and psychosocial support, c) prosecuting perpetrators of violence, sexual abuse and rape, d) increasing the involvement and the capacity of service-providers, in particular the police, in preventing, investigating and dealing with violence, sexual abuse and rape, e) facilitating greater involvement of the police in child protection, f) developing specific programmes for victims of Gender-Based Violence and survival sex including protection, assistance and access to lawful employment. 5. Take specific measures to protect all refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, including women, girls and people with disabilities, against all forms of discrimination or related intolerance.