A/HRC/46/36 implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and reviews by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and United Nations counter-terrorism entities which profess to mainstream gender into their work; (f) Seriously review and consider the office and capacities of the Ombudsperson, including the terms of contract, its capacity and the operating procedures of the office, which are significantly deficient from a human rights and rule of law standpoint and necessitate reform, and address the rights of individuals, including women and girls, which remain inadequately protected across listing regimes; the obligation to fix that deficit lies with Security Council members; (g) Repatriate, rehabilitate and prosecute (as warranted) the women and children who are in the camps in the Syrian Arab Republic and in detention in Iraq, which remains an insistent human rights necessity; and States must fulfil their international human rights obligations, particularly their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, without delay. B. United Nations bodies 40. The Special Rapporteur recommends that: (a) Counter-terrorism entities, such as the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, adopt a clear and precise definition of gender mainstreaming in their work and that such a definition should concur with the definition used by the United Nations treaty bodies and UN-Women and ensure that gender mainstreaming is consistent with States’ obligations, including human rights; (b) Technical support and capacity-building work by United Nations entities in the counter-terrorism arena must fully observe due diligence in respect of the negative effects of terrorism on the rights of women and girls; and United Nations entities must not contribute to commodification, stereotyping and/or the infliction of direct harms on women and girls by counter-terrorism and extremism regulation; (c) United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact entities must ensure that gender mainstreaming is meaningfully and practically integrated into their work, specifically that the human rights and equality of women and girls are advanced; and the misuse of counter-terrorism measures against women human rights defenders and women-led civil society organizations must be adequately addressed by United Nations entities in the counter-terrorism context. C. Family courts and care professionals 41. The Special Rapporteur recommends that: (a) Cases involving the removal, wardship or State care of children on the basis of extremism should be published, and the principle of open justice and transparency, consistent with the practice of the State in other contentious family law regulations, should apply; (b) The use of intelligence information or forms of proceedings in family regulation, e.g., closed material proceedings, but not shared with legal representatives of family members in the process of severing the most fundamental of human relationships – the legal relationship between a child and a parent – is inconsistent with the protection of the family, the rights of the child and due process norms under international law and should be ended. 18

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