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139.214 Develop comprehensive policies and programmes on gender-based
violence, including training of security forces, prosecutors and judges in order
to properly deal with those cases (Israel);
139.215 Undertake continued and enhanced efforts to protect and provide
redress to women suffering from violence and to continue raising awareness,
through training and other means, in the judicial system, including to the
police, of the necessity to act against all cases of sexual and gender-based
violence, including on the grounds of real or perceived sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression (Sweden);
139.216 Carry out a national outreach campaign for the elimination of sexual
and gender-based violence which includes information on the rights of victims
(Mexico);
139.217 Increase efforts to guarantee women’s access to justice, protection
and other remedies and put in place stronger mechanisms to protect women
and girls from gender-based violence and provide redress to victims (Austria);
139.218 Deploy the necessary efforts to improve the functioning of the courts
dealing with sexual crimes in the country, while intensifying public awarenessraising campaigns aimed at reducing the underutilization of these courts
(Haiti);
139.219 Reinforce its efforts to ensure the thorough investigation and
prosecution of crimes of gender-based and domestic violence and guarantee
access to justice for victims (Mongolia);
139.220 Allocate sufficient resources to implement its youth policy to ensure
meaningful use of youth delegates participating in international forums, and
inclusion of youth in rural areas and strengthen political impartiality and
independence of youth representation1 (Denmark);
139.221 Harmonize legislation in order to ensure that the minimum age of
marriage is increased to 18 years for boys and girls, without exception (Haiti);
139.222 Implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child through the
harmonization of its national laws to ensure that the minimum age for
marriage is established at 18 years for both girls and boys and remove barriers
to birth registration (Kenya);
139.223 Increase the age of marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls and
harmonize legislation to this effect (Sierra Leone);
139.224 Harmonize the South African legislation to ensure that the minimum
age for marriage is established at 18 years for both boys and girls (Zambia);
139.225 Ensure in national legislation that the minimum age for marriage is
18 years for both girls and boys and take all necessary measures to prevent and
eliminate child sex tourism and exploitation of child labour (Slovenia);
139.226 Revise the Children’s Act in order to set the minimum age for
marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls (Belgium);
139.227 Take all necessary measures to end sexual and gender-based violence,
especially by developing adequate gender-sensitive training programmes for
law enforcement agencies, the national prosecuting authority and judicial
officers and by adopting specific legislation addressing the practice of
ukuthwala (child marriage) (Germany);
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The recommendation as read during the interactive dialogue: “Allocate sufficient resources to
implement its youth policy to ensure meaningful use of youth delegates, inclusion of youth in rural
areas and strengthen political impartiality and independence of youth representation (Denmark)”.
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