in addition the due diligence obligation of states to prosecute punish and compensate for human rights violations committed by nonstate actors has also become a wellrecognized international norm states should ensure that women victims of human rights violations have access to immediate means of redress and reparation that perpetrators are prosecuted and punished and that mechanisms for this are accessible to women the obligation to provide adequate reparations includes ensuring the rights of women to access both criminal and civil remedies and the establishment of effective protection support and rehabilitation services for survivors of violence