A/HRC/19/3 88.18. Implement policies to ensure women’s equality with regard to working positions and the home and seek to protect women from all forms of violence (Costa Rica); 88.19. Adopt political measures to increase the representation of women in decision-making and high-level posts in the public administration (Spain); 88.20. Continue its efforts to raise the level of gender awareness not only among public servants at all levels of the government, but also among community at large (Indonesia); 88.21. Carry out national programs to disseminate and create awareness among women in the country, related to all the aspects regulated by CEDAW (Uruguay); 88.22. Implement comprehensive measures, in particular in rural areas, to initiate a change with regard to the widely accepted subordination of women and its stereotypes in the country (Uruguay); 88.23. Bring the definition of torture in domestic law into line with the definition in article 1 of CAT (Czech Republic); Incorporate a definition of torture into its domestic law, in line with article 1 of CAT (Australia); 88.24. Establish a legal definition of torture in line with article 1 of CAT, and independent mechanisms to investigate and prosecute related cases (Canada); 88.25. Strengthen measures to combat and prevent torture and other cruel and degrading treatments (Brazil); 88.26. Adopt and implement efficient measures to prevent torture and other forms of ill-treatment, and ensure prompt and credible investigations into all allegations of torture including deaths in custody (Slovakia); 88.27. Continue its efforts in harmonizing its Criminal Code, particularly those articles related to torture, in line with the relevant international human rights instruments (Indonesia); 88.28. Take concrete actions to eradicate the use of torture, including through strengthening relevant provisions in national legislation (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 88.29. Evaluate the possibility of increasing its efforts to prevent, criminalize and eliminate all forms of violence against women, including measures aimed at the promotion of their rights and the elimination of patriarchal and discriminatory stereotypes (Argentina); 88.30. Treat violence against women as a criminal offence, and enact the existing draft Bill on Social and Legal Protection against Domestic Violence (Czech Republic); 88.31. Enact the draft bill on Social and Legal Protection against Domestic Violence and develop a national plan to prevent and eradicate violence against women (Canada); 88.32. Adopt legislative measures to criminalize and prosecute gender violence at public instances, as well as establish shelters for women victims of violence and train staff involved into investigations of those cases (Spain); 88.33. Implement the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women in 2008 (Spain); 14

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