A/HRC/29/10 143.42. Accelerate (Lithuania); progress towards abolishing the death penalty 143.43. Abolish capital punishment and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Portugal); 143.44. Abolish the death penalty (Poland); 143.45. Implement the reconciliation put forth by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority’s 2014 reports on the “Usalama Watch” security operation and on the Mpeketoni attacks (United States of America); 143.46. Decriminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex (Slovenia); 143.47. Decriminalize consenting relationships between adults of the same sex and adopt measures against violence and hate speech against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex persons and associations (Chile); 143.48. Decriminalize (Denmark); consensual same-sex conduct between adults 143.49. Decriminalize sexual relation between consenting adults of the same sex (Poland); 143.50. Amend provisions under the recently adopted security law to ensure that Kenya’s international human rights obligations are respected, in particular with regard to the right to freedom of expression (Austria); 143.51. Operationalize the Public Benefits Organizations Act of 2013 as a law facilitating an independent and unhindered work of civil society, and refrain from enacting restrictive requirements with stifling effect on the country’s nongovernmental organizations, their functioning and funding (Czech Republic); 143.52. Review the compliance of the Kenya Information Communication (Amendment) Act of 2013 with international standards on freedom of expression, create an enabling environment for journalists and bloggers and decriminalize media offences and defamation (Czech Republic); 143.53. Ensure that laws regulating non-governmental organizations are in conformity with the rights to freedom of expression and association by repealing restrictions on the access of such organizations to foreign funding (Germany); 143.54. Proceed to the swift enactment of the draft laws on the freedom of information, as mentioned in paragraph 41 of its National Report, and to the urgent overall review of the penal treatment of freedom of expression offences, especially with regard to the protection of journalists (Greece); 143.55. Enact without delay the 2013 Access to Information Bill and Data Protection Bill (Latvia); 143.56. Abolish criminal sanctions for media offences (Latvia); 143.57. Decriminalize defamation to ensure that journalists are able to practise in a free and safe environment; investigate all attacks on journalists (Lithuania); 27

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