A/HRC/23/4 81. The following recommendations will be examined by Tonga which will provide responses in due course, but no later than the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council in June 2013: 81.1. Establish a national human rights institution in conformity with the Paris Principle (Burundi) to monitor Government action in this area, advise on legislation and the application of international human rights instruments, facilitate interaction with international and regional organizations, promote human rights education and file legal complaints (Uruguay); 81.2. Seek the support of the international community for the establishment of a national human rights institution and finalize the revision of its constitution (Angola); 81.3. Continue its efforts to create a national human rights institution (Turkey); 81.4. Give consideration to implement laws prohibiting sexual discrimination and affirmative action policies aimed at increasing women’s participation in Parliament (Trinidad and Tobago); 81.5. Examine the possibility of strengthening measures to eliminate all discriminatory treatment related to sexual orientation or gender identity (Argentina); 81.6. Bring its national legislation into conformity with its commitment to equality and non-discrimination, by repealing the provision in the Penal Code to criminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex (Norway); 81.7. Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between same-sex adults, and combat cases of discrimination against those persons (Spain); 81.8. Repeal the provisions of the Tongan Criminal Offences Act criminalizing consensual sex between adults of the same gender (United States of America); 81.9. Amend its legislation to repeal laws which criminalize consensual adult same-sex relations (Canada); 81.10. Abrogate all penal provisions criminalizing sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex (France); 81.11. Amend its legislation to include the principle of equality between men and women and give men and women equal rights of inheritance (Norway); 81.12. Repeal legislation that deprives women from some rights, such as the right to inheritance and land ownership (Chile); 81.13. Enact legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender, including with regard to land rights (Slovenia); 81.14. Develop a more gender balanced land ownership law, building on the recommendation of its Royal Land Commission regarding land allotment (Hungary); 81.15. Take the necessary steps to abolish the death penalty (Norway); 81.16. Proceed to a formal and effective abolishment of death penalty through the ratification of the 2nd Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Spain); 16

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