A/HRC/11/20 Page 18 5. Fulfil its voluntary pledge (Latvia) and issue (Norway) and implement (Czech Republic) a standing invitation to all the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council 6. Continue with national programmes already undertaken to reduce any form of discrimination against women until it is totally eliminated (Cuba); Adopt specific legislation on violence against women and forced marriages, in conformity with CEDAW and CRC, in order to prevent and to combat discrimination against women (Mexico); implement active policies and awareness campaigns in order to overcome the situation of discrimination against women (Argentina); carry out public awareness campaigns about equal opportunities of women and men should be carried on (Lithuania); to address the challenge of gender mainstreaming in a purposeful manner (Bangladesh), 7. Provide law enforcement and judicial officials with specific education/sensitivity training towards the protection of children, women and persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity (Czech Republic); 8. Devote increasing attention to the struggle against violence against women, especially through the implementation of social measures in this field (Algeria); take all measures to grant access to justice for all women victim of violence, and take measures for their protection and the rehabilitation, and to train police authorities on violence against women (France); 9. Continue and intensify its efforts on behalf of children and women generally, to ensure their safety in the domestic environment and to remove any obstacles to their education, development and access to equal opportunities (Indonesia); further developing measures against domestic violence against women (Lithuania), Victims of domestic violence should have possibility to use appropriate means of redress and access to shelters (Lithuania); take concrete steps and ensure that all necessary resources are provided to government agencies in order to increase the efficiency of a child protection system (Austria); continue efforts in the direction of the positive improvements in women and children’s rights, especially measures taken to combat domestic violence (Afghanistan); 10. Increase the protection mechanisms for women and children as well as measures to disseminate and make their implementation more effective (Chile); 11. Fully implement the recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children (Slovenia); take the necessary measures so that persons below 18, being under arrest, would not be subject to corporal punishment or other forms of ill-treatment (Hungary); take necessary measures aimed at prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment against children (Brazil); step up its social integration policies and education programmes to eradicate the current situation of children living on the street who are victims of sexual exploitation and physical abuse (Argentina); 12. Take concrete measures to ensure necessary resources to increase effectiveness in the protection of rights of the child, including through effective monitoring of conditions in institutional care and establishing of a complaint mechanism for

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