Furthermore , as the Special Rapporteur on violence against women indicated in her report ( A/68/340 ) , a growing number of women were being incarcerated for low-level drug trafficking crimes committed under coercion . Costa Rica reiterated its call for universal ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and would continue to support the work of the Committee of the Convention as well as that of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ( UN-Women ) .