A/HRC/13/15 2. Ratify or sign, as relevant, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED), with a view to being consistent with its practice on this matter (Paraguay); consider the possibility of accepting the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance provided for under CED (Argentina); 3. Join the 67 States that have signed the joint statement on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity (France); 4. Ratify the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (Burkina Faso);* 5. Consider including in its criminal legislation the delinquent conducts provided for in relevant paragraphs of article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Peru); 6. Amend its criminal legislation so as to bring it into line with ICERD in order to overcome the fact that racial discrimination is viewed as a minor infraction punishable by a fine, as stated by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Portugal); 7. Take steps to integrate a gender perspective throughout all areas of government, including through the application of gender-based analysis to the development of legislation, policy and programmes (Canada);* 8. Strengthen gender equality policies with a view to narrowing the gender gap in all areas of society (Chile);* 9. Strengthen the policy of promotion of children’s rights and the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, according to Human Rights Council resolution 11/7 and L.50 of the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly (Brazil); 10. Follow through and expand on already established programmes to protect children (United States); 11. Finalize the fifth and sixth due reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, without further delay (Norway); 12. Intensify its efforts to counter discrimination against women based on whatever grounds (Slovakia); 13. Continue to implement all measures aimed at promoting gender equality, notably by combating all discrimination against women and stereotypes (Algeria); 14. Intensify its efforts to realize gender equality, including by implementing the recommendation made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2003 aimed at changing social stereotypes that encourage discrimination against women and impede their egalitarian performance in society (Norway); 15. Bearing in mind Costa Rica’s commitment to gender equality, seek to overcome all obstacles that impede the effective implementation of the Law to Penalize Violence against Women and guarantee the free exercise of effective judicial protection for the victims of domestic violence, including the right to reparations (Spain); 14