A/HRC/19/5 68.26. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility and establish detention facilities exclusive for minors, separate from those for adults (Spain); 68.27. Further intensify efforts to adopt international standards in promoting and protecting human rights in the domestic legislation, including by reviewing the minimum age for criminal responsibility and adopting the juvenile justice standards (Indonesia); 68.28. Strengthen the framework for protecting children's rights, particularly through measures to prevent child abuse, exploitation and violence against children, and consider revising the juvenile justice system to raise the age for criminal responsibility according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Mexico); 68.29. Address the issue of poor conditions in prison and detention centres in particular by ensuring the separation of juvenile offenders from adult inmates (Slovakia); 68.30. Take steps to ensure that prisoners and detainees under the age of 18 are housed separately from the general prison population (Canada); 68.31. Implement public awareness campaigns on discrimination based on sexual preference (Spain); 68.32. Request technical cooperation and assistance from the international community, including the appropriate international agencies, to strengthen national capacities to collect, process and analyse relevant human rights statistical information (Mexico); 68.33. Request technical assistance and technical cooperation to the United Nations in order to, among other objectives, develop a national action plan to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child, establish an independent national human rights institution, carry out public policies that prevent abuse and neglect of children, and address the problems faced by children with disabilities (Uruguay). 69. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Antigua and Barbuda: 69.1. Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which abolishes capital punishment under any circumstances (France); 69.2. Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty, and take all necessary steps to remove the death penalty from Antigua and Barbuda law (Australia); 69.3. Abolish the death penalty (United Kingdom); 69.4. Repeal the death penalty (Canada); 69.5. Consider abolishing the death penalty (Brazil); 69.6. Set up a de jure moratorium on executions with a view to finally abolishing the death penalty as well as commuting any possible death sentences to an imprisonment penalty (France); 69.7. Repeal criminal legislation that provides for the death penalty and commute the death sentences already issued by imprisonment; or, if not, keep the existing de facto moratorium (Spain); 17

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