A/HRC/14/12 4. Respond positively to pending requests by several United Nations Special Rapporteurs to visit (Austria); 5. Accept a visit to the country by the Special Rapporteurs on violence against women, on the situation of human rights defenders, and on freedom of opinion and expression (Belgium); 6. Take all steps necessary to reform the discriminatory provisions of penal and civil laws, including with regard to women’s equal rights in marriage, access to justice and legal discrimination (Ireland); 7. Bring its national legislation into conformity with international obligations on women’s rights, and to follow the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as well as guarantee the safety of advocates for gender equality (Estonia); 8. Cease execution by stoning (Australia); 9. Take urgent action to reduce the number of offences punishable by death, and to entirely ban the execution of such sentences in case of juveniles (Hungary); 10. Fully comply with its obligations under ICCPR and CRC with regard to the use of inhumane and/or public execution and the use of the death penalty in the case of minors (Ireland); 11. Renounce the execution of persons who were minors at the time of the crime, in accordance with its commitments under CRC (France); 12. Cease all planned executions of juvenile offenders, and to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by minors (Australia); 13. Eliminate, juvenile executions and executions of persons for crimes that they committed when they were under the age of 18 (Czech Republic); 14. Ban executions of juvenile offenders, in compliance with article 6 of ICCPR (Italy); 15. Strengthen the moratorium on the death penalty against young people, established in October 2008; limit the crimes punishable by the death penalty; to commute death sentences to imprisonment; and withdraw its reservations to CRC and specifically prohibit the application of the death penalty to young people in all circumstances (Spain); 16. Remove or define its blanket reservation to the CRC and to declare an immediate moratorium on juvenile executions, with the aim of abolishing the death penalty for offences committed by minors (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 17. Consider eliminating the death penalty for people who were under 18 at the time of the commission of the crime for which they were convicted, as stipulated by CRC, and withdraw its general reservation to the CRC (Chile); 18. End the practice of executing juvenile offenders and of public executions, including through stoning (Austria); 19. Extend the rights guaranteed in Iranian legislation to all religious groups, including the Baha’i community (Brazil); 21

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