A/HRC/16/16 61.16. Continue working with State Governments to remove the reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Australia); 61.17. Withdraw the reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Brazil/Spain); 61.18. Remove the outstanding reservations on articles 2 (f), 5, 11 (1) (d), 11 (2) and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as a matter of urgency (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 61.19. Withdraw its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and adopt constitutional and legal reforms in conformity with the principles of the Convention, with a view to eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and girl children, which remain in education, employment, the family and political life (Ecuador); 61.20. Adopt legal and other types of measures for the full implementation of the principles contained in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and eliminate Micronesia’s reservations to the Convention, in accordance with the recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Mexico); 61.21. Ensure full human rights legal protection throughout Micronesia (Australia); 61.22. Conduct a comprehensive review of existing legislation, and harmonize law and customary practices in all four states with international standards (Hungary); 61.23. Eliminate all laws and practices that discriminate against women, and promote equal treatment of girls and boys, including through awareness programmes (Canada); 61.24. Address any customary practices that are inconsistent with its obligations under international law, and bring its national law relating to women and children into line with its obligations under international human rights law (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 61.25. Fully implement legislation related to the rights of women, and explicitly ban marital violence (France); 61.26. Pass laws at the national and state levels to address domestic violence and other forms of violence against women (Australia); 61.27. Establish specific laws against domestic violence and the sexual abuse of women in all states in the Federation (New Zealand); 61.28. Adopt laws against domestic violence and against the sexual abuse of women and children (Slovenia); 61.29. Pass a comprehensive anti-trafficking law applicable in the Federated States of Micronesia, and promptly ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (United States); 14

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