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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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