10.1 take appropriate measures to ensure that
rape in armed conflicts is irrevocably treated as a war crime, as in Article
8.xxii of the Statute of the International Criminal Court;
10.2 make sure that laws and standards relating to rape in wartime are
properly applied at national level;
10.3 recognise the inalienable right of women who have been raped to
undergo voluntary termination of pregnancy if they wish, this right arising
automatically from the rape;
10.4 recognise the right to report a rape to the authorities as applying
without limit of time and to empower the prosecution service to institute ex
officio proceedings;
10.5 ensure that domestic courts apply the common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949;
10.6 introduce strict witness-protection measures in rape cases, including
post-trial protection;
10.7 set up special programmes for female rape victims, in particular
multidisciplinary programmes which take the feminine dimension into account,
and encourage women to look after female victims of rape and other sexual
abuse;
10.8 make social-assistance arrangements and ensure fair treatment for
female rape victims who do not terminate a resultant pregnancy and who, for
various reasons, have to or decide to keep the child in order to avoid
marginalisation;
10.9 set up a solidarity fund to help rape victims and provide economic
support for the children of rape victims;
10.10 set up training programmes for persons required to deal with and help
rape victims;
10.11 establish programmes of education in tolerance, respect for human
dignity and general human rights;
10.12 provide the necessary administrative and financial resources for such
programmes;
10.13 ensure that court benches trying crimes of sexual violence against
women are composed of equal numbers of men and women, with specially trained
staff;
10.14 apply international humanitarian norms generously to help rape
victims obtain asylum.