A/HRC/10/70 Page 18 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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