A/HRC/21/5 116. The following recommendations will be examined by Tunisia which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the 21st session of the Human Rights Council in September 2012: 24 116.1. Strengthen equality between men and women, including equality in their rights to an inheritance (Austria); Eliminate discrimination between women and men in inheritance rights (Poland); 116.2. Continue to combat all forms of discrimination still faced by women, notably those remaining in the Personal Statute Law in the areas of inheritance and child custody (Belgium); 116.3. Abolish discriminatory laws against women, maintain the Personal Statute Law, and ensure that the rights it sets forth for women are enshrined in the new Constitution (Canada); 116.4. Remove the remaining reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and align its national legislation, including the Civil Code, with this Convention to give women equal rights in matters of inheritance and guardianship of children (Norway); 116.5. Abolish legislation discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, in order to guarantee the same rights to all citizens, including LGBT persons (Spain); 116.6. Abolish the death penalty (Turkey). Integrate the abolition of the death penalty in the new Constitution (Germany), (Italy); 116.7. Sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Portugal); 116.8. Abolish definitively the death penalty and ratify the Second Protocol to ICCPR (France 4); Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR and implement its provisions in national legislation through the abolition of the death penalty (Ireland 1); Take all necessary measures to abolish the death penalty and to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Norway 2); Abolish, once and for all, the death penalty in conformity with the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Uruguay); 116.9. Ratify the Second Optional of the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, as it is an indispensable instrument in furthering the enjoyment of the right to life (Hungary); 116.10. Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aimed at abolition of the death penalty, which has not been applied in Tunisia for the past 20 years (Belgium); 116.11. Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR (Spain); 116.12. Establish a time line for incorporating the principle of equality between men and women in the Constitution, and for the adoption of a law and regulations to combat violence against women, including domestic violence and marital rape (Honduras).

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