A/HRC/18/15 78.22. Provide suitable, dedicated secure facilities for serious juvenile offenders, with greater training for personnel involved in their supervision, and meaningful alternatives to imprisonment for minor juvenile offenders (United Kingdom); 78.23. Raise the minimum age for marriage of both sexes to bring it in line with international standards (Ecuador); 78.24. Address the concerns of UNICEF that discrimination persists in the law relating to marriage as regards the minimum legal age of marriage, which is 15 for girls and 16 for boys; these ages are too low in both cases, according to UNICEF (Haiti); 78.25. In accordance with the observations of the International Labour Organization, raise to 16 the minimum age for employment, with a view to harmonizing it with the age of completion of compulsory school education, and thus combat both the phenomenon of children dropping out of school as well as child labour (Honduras); 78.26. Repeal all discriminatory provisions against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (France). 79. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 79.1. Sign (Portugal), accede to (Australia) and ratify the second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the abolition of capital punishment (Spain, Slovenia); 79.2. Ratify and implement the second Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (United Kingdom); 79.3. Bring the legislation into conformity with the country’s commitment to equality and non-discrimination and its international human rights obligations, by repealing all provisions which may be applied to criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults (United Kingdom); 79.4. Consider the possibility (Ecuador) of abolishing the death penalty (Brazil, Norway); 79.5. Enact legislation (Austria) to definitively abolish (France, Australia) the death penalty; repeal the death penalty (Canada); take steps towards the complete abolition of the death penalty (Slovakia); 79.6. Declare a moratorium to abolish capital punishment and commute such punishment to deprivation of liberty (Spain); 79.7. Introduce (Belgium) and establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolish the death penalty (Slovenia); 79.8. Establish a de jure moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to its abolition (Portugal) or as a step towards its abolition (Hungary); and support the General Assembly resolution on the use of the death penalty (Portugal); 79.9. Prohibit corporal punishment at school, at home and in public institutions for children and in the context of the administration of justice (France); 18

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