A/HRC/39/12 149.38 Reduce the number of crimes to which the death penalty applies, as a step towards eventual abolition of the death penalty (Australia); 149.39 Enact a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to abolishing it (Holy See); 149.40 Introduce a moratorium as a first step towards final abolition of the death penalty (Austria); 149.41 Establish a moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty (Belgium); 149.42 Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, as a first step towards complete abolition of this practice (Italy); / Take steps towards the full abolition of the death penalty (New Zealand); / Consider the imposition of a moratorium on the death penalty (Poland); 149.43 Establish a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition (Chile); 149.44 Continue the process of edging out the death penalty with a view to totally abolishing it (Namibia); 149.45 Decriminalize defamation and include it in the Civil Code in accordance with international standards, and take steps to create an independent broadcast licensing authority (Estonia); 149.46 Revise media laws, in consultation with civil society, to decriminalize “defamation” and “hurting religious sentiment”, and limit proposed extended jail terms for these offences (United States of America); 149.47 Expand its democratic space online and offline in which opposition politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and other civil society members can operate freely and without fear for their lives, and to this end revise section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act and amend the Foreign Donation Regulations Act (Czechia); 149.48 Ensure that human rights activists and journalists can exercise their rights without fear, intimidation and harassment by redrafting the planned Digital Security Act, and repealing or amending all laws that violate the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including the provisions of the Penal Code related to defamation and sedition, the Information and Communication Technology Act (in particular section 57), and the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act, in line with international human rights law (Germany); 149.49 Repeal the Information and Communication Technology Act (2006), as amended in 2013, or modify the Information and Communication Technology Act to bring it in line with international law and standards (Greece); 149.50 Repeal all laws and policies that restrict the activities and rights of its citizens and civil society organizations, including the Information and Communication Technology Act of 2006 and the Foreign Donations Regulation Act of 2016 (Netherlands); 149.51 Ensure that all refugee and stateless women and girls have effective access to justice without being threatened with arrest, by amending the 1946 Foreigners Act (Iceland); 149.52 Strengthen measures to prevent, investigate, and hold security forces accountable for human rights violations and abuses, including providing an update on investigations into the alleged disappearances of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem and Amaan Azmi (United States of America); 149.53 End impunity by conducting thorough investigations and criminal prosecutions of human rights violations and abuses against human rights 24

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