A/HRC/37/4 115.138 Continue the efforts to prevent and address gender-based violence, and in this context, ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Belgium); 115.139 Take measures to effectively prevent and prosecute acts of domestic and sexual violence and assist victims of such violence (Thailand); 115.140 Continue its efforts in combating sexual abuse, including by ensuring that perpetrators are brought to justice (Timor-Leste); 115.141 Continue to take action towards a comprehensive gender equality strategy, and introduce effective legislative measures to increase women’s participation in political life and decision-making (Bosnia and Herzegovina); 115.142 Continue efforts to eradicate stereotypes regarding the position of women in society and to set specific goals, targets and time frames to increase the representation of women, including Roma women, in legislative assemblies and government positions (Netherlands); 115.143 Continue efforts to promote equality between men and women by promoting balanced representation in decision-making bodies as well as in the labour market and entrepreneurship, among other initiatives (Nicaragua); 115.144 Continue its efforts to create an ombudsman for children’s rights (Bosnia and Herzegovina); 115.145 Consider the creation of an ombudsman for children’s rights in order to further advance the status of children (Ireland); 115.146 Continue to promote and protect the rights of the child, also by considering the creation of a national ombudsperson for children (Italy); 115.147 Establish a separate ombudsperson particularly dedicated to the rights of children (Norway); 115.148 Continue to effectively and fully implement the National Strategy to Protect Children’s Rights for the term 2012–2018 (Maldives); 115.149 Strengthen its child protection system by explicitly prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings (Austria); 115.150 Consider the further harmonization of the prohibition of corporal punishment of children with international standards (Croatia); 115.151 Strengthen national measures to address abuses towards children and end corporal punishment (Indonesia); 115.152 Undertake practical steps to put an end to corporal punishment of children in all settings (Montenegro); 115.153 Prohibit by law corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 115.154 Take further legislative and policy measures to discontinue the institutionalization of children under 3 years of age (Bulgaria); 115.155 Continue with efforts to abolish the practice of placement of children under 3 years of age in institutionalized organized care and further strengthen the system of family foster care as the main alternative to institutionalization (Croatia); 115.156 Continue finding alternative family care for vulnerable children so as to avoid placing them in institutional care (Namibia); 115.157 End institutionalization of children under the age of 3 (Republic of Moldova); 115.158 Strengthen its child protection system by enhancing its efforts to end or limit the institutionalization of children under 3 years of age (Austria); 19