A/HRC/18/14 75.25 Conduct a public awareness campaign to ensure public understanding of the role of the human rights monitoring mechanism (New Zealand); 75.26 Consider establishing an independent body for the promotion and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Brazil); 75.27 Develop a national plan of action that provides a road map to ensure that international human rights commitments are reflected in domestic legislation (Maldives); 75.28 Take measures to reduce gender imbalance in the legislative and executive branches of Government (Norway); 75.29. Take appropriate measures to make the promotion of gender equality an explicit component of its national development plan and policies and to include in its Constitution or other appropriate domestic legislation a definition of discrimination against women (Brazil); 75.30 Amend its national law to guarantee equality between men and women and ensure that customs and traditional practices cannot be used in law to discriminate against women (United Kingdom); 75.31 Introduce amendments to its domestic legislation and administrative regulations aimed at eradicating all forms of discrimination against women, children, persons with disabilities and, in general, all groups in vulnerable situations (Ecuador); 75.32 Introduce amendments to its domestic legislation and administrative regulations aimed at abolishing all forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Ecuador); 75.33 Carry out additional prison facility improvements, and invite independent human rights observers to monitor conditions within the prisons (United States); 75.34 Circulate and implement the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Bangkok Rules) as part of its Law and Justice Sector Plan and seek appropriate assistance from OHCHR and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in its implementation (Thailand); 75.35 Ensure that the Professional Standards Unit of the Police complete its investigations in a timely fashion, and that it expand police training to address concerns about abuse by police (United States); 75.36 Review its legislation to bring the criminal responsibility of children in line with international standards (Costa Rica); 75.37 Equalize the legal minimum age of marriage for girls and boys (Norway); 75.38 Fulfil its commitment to equality and non-discrimination by repealing all legal provisions that criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults and investigate all cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (Canada); 75.39 Repeal laws criminalizing relations between consenting adults of the same sex (France); 75.40 Repeal all provisions which may be applied to criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults and adopt appropriate legislative measures 19

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