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regularly report to the treaty bodies, and specifically with regard to the Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Netherlands);
6.
To increase the age of criminal responsibility of children (Czech Republic);
7.
To implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination regarding migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers (Canada).
54.
The recommendations below noted in the report did not enjoy the support of the
Bahamas:
1.
To consider withdrawing its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in particular article 2 (Algeria);
2.
To ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Mexico, United
Kingdom, Australia); to abolish the death penalty (Germany); to consider the
repeal of provisions allowing for the death penalty (United Kingdom); to declare
a moratorium on executions and start an information campaign explaining to the
population the problems of capital punishment (Chile); to consider establishing a
moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, in
accordance with General Assembly resolution 62/149 (Brazil); to consider the
adoption of a legal moratorium on the use of death penalty with a view to
abolishing capital punishment in national legislation (Italy); to abolish the death
penalty and immediately declare a moratorium on all executions (Australia); to
effectively abolish the death penalty and that a moratorium be immediately
decreed with respect to all executions (Haiti); to envisage actions to abolish
capital punishment (Botswana); to make a real political commitment to combating
violence against women, and in particular that it change its national legislation
allowing the criminalization of marital rape (France); to amend existing
legislation so as to outlaw marital rape (United Kingdom); to continue its efforts
to promote gender equality and consider appropriate legislative changes,
including criminalizing marital rape (Sweden);
3.
To consider undertaking studies on children involved in the commercial sex
industry, factors luring or compelling them to engage in such crimes, and to take
appropriate action (Bangladesh);
4.
To focus more efforts on combating child prostitution and pornography and in
aiding its victims in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (Canada);
5.
To eliminate corporal punishment from Bahamas legislation in accordance with
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Chile);
to continue, as a matter of priority, efforts to prohibit corporal punishment, of
children as well as of adults, and to allocate necessary resources to allow the full
implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (Sweden); to put en
end to corporal punishment in schools and in the home, and to revise article 1.10
of the Criminal Code (Haiti);
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