A/HRC/16/16 61.47. Report regularly to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Slovenia); 61.48. Consider issuing a standing invitation to the Special Rapporteurs (Brazil); 61.49. Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); 61.50. Take measures to promote the participation of women in the decisionmaking process (Algeria); 61.51. Increase efforts to reduce poverty and address existing gender gaps, including political participation, to combat violence against women and to promote equal remuneration in the workplace (Brazil); 61.52. Include sexual orientation and gender identity as prohibited grounds for discrimination in legislation and equality initiatives (Canada); 61.53. Include women’s rights in education curricula (Slovenia); 61.54. Develop a comprehensive national policy, consistent with provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to guarantee effective gender equality and to combat gender violence, while providing special follow-up to cases of gender violence and studying the reasons why there are so few complaints to the authorities (Spain); 61.55. Continue implementing measures in its ongoing efforts to eliminate discrimination and all forms of violence against women and children, and, in particular, undertake appropriate measures to prevent and combat ill treatment, sexual abuse and violence against children, as well as rehabilitate child victims (Thailand); 61.56. Ensure that there is no difference between the acceptable age of marriage for girls and boys in all its territories and that young girls are not subjected to early marriage (New Zealand); 61.57. Establish effective measures to prevent mistreatment in detention centres and prisons, for example, through human rights training programmes for members of the police (Spain); 61.58. Take measures to reduce the phenomenon of violence against women (Algeria); 61.59. Take steps to provide adequate protection against sexual and genderbased violence, while ensuring that assistance is available to victims for their physical and mental rehabilitation (Canada); 61.60. Make efforts to increase awareness about violence against women and to work proactively to use both judicial and law enforcement tools to reduce such incidences (United States); 61.61. Initiate a comprehensive study on abuse, ill treatment and domestic violence against women and girls, the results of which can be used as the basis for social programmes to prevent these serious problems (Hungary); 61.62. Take action to reduce domestic violence and to criminalize it (Chile); 61.63. Criminalize trafficking in persons, and guarantee the protection and rehabilitation of the victims of trafficking (Ecuador); 16

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