A/HRC/15/7 97.41. Implement measures to permit State-owned media to operate independently and at arm’s length from government (Canada); 97.42. Promote voter awareness and participation, and ensure free and fair elections, as these conditions are equally important on the local as on the national level (Norway); 97.43. Put in place safeguards to ensure that freedom of assembly is not adversely affected in the implementation of the Public Processions and Meetings Bill (Ireland); 97.44. Continue to address the issue of child labour and exploitation and to finalize the draft of the National Action Programme (Norway); 97.45. Draw up plans for combating the threat of HIV/AIDS (Sudan)6; 97.46. Call for the assistance of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in particular to facilitate the timely submission of its periodic reports to treaty bodies (Algeria); 97.47. Call for international technical assistance, in particular from the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and explore the possibility of benefiting from the experience of countries that have succeeded in reforms to improve the functioning of justice (Algeria); 97.48. Solicit the necessary international assistance and cooperation in the establishment of a National Commission on Human Rights in accordance with the Paris Principles (Morocco); 97.49. Seek the support of the international community and cooperate with it to formulate policies aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS (Indonesia); 97.50. Call for the support from the international community for the efforts aimed at combating the AIDS pandemic by ensuring its capacity-building (Senegal); 97.51. Seek the necessary international assistance, upon identification of its national priorities, to be better able to fulfil its obligations in the area of the promotion and protection of human rights (Egypt). 98. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Lesotho: 98.1. Revise the provisions on defamation and libel in order that these are not considered crimes in national legislation (Mexico); 98.2. Repeal legislation criminalizing male homosexuality, and introduce policies aimed at ending discrimination against homosexuals (Australia); 98.3. Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); issue a standing invitation to all special procedures (Spain); 98.4. Decriminalize homosexuality and abrogate the law which prohibits sexual relations between people of the same sex (France); 98.5. Amend the Sodomy Law so that a sexual relationship between two consenting adults of the same sex is no longer punishable (Netherlands). 6 20 Recommendation originally read: “Draw up plans for combating the threat of HIV/AIDS as well as for the elimination of female genital mutilation practices” (Sudan).