22 Anyangwe/Extrajudicial killings of women in Africa and socio-economic advancement programmes designed to educate and uplift especially people in communities where this evil is prevalent. Accompanying legislative measures should aim at strengthening existing laws on violence against women by: providing appropriate and appropriately applied penalties for perpetrators; protecting and empowering women; identifying and removing all forms of discrimination against women; amending the criminal law and procedure by removing gender bias embedded in the law; ensuring access to the courts, fairness and justice to the parties; giving families of victims effective access to counselling, restitution, reparation and other forms of just and equitable remedies. On the whole, the State and other relevant actors should undertake educational activities and programmes to prevent the perpetration of gender violence, including its extreme form, extrajudicial killing of women.