A/HRC/14/13 14. To adopt specific legislation in the area of equality between men and women, a law on the fight against domestic violence and a global strategy aimed at eliminating cultural practices and discriminatory stereotypes against women (France); 15. To apply laws on improving the status of women in the country and their marital status (Kyrgyzstan); 16. To continue to strengthen the legal system and the State mechanism to protect human rights (Lao People’s Democratic Republic); 17. To take, as soon as possible, the measures necessary to operationalize national human rights institutions, ensuring their independence and depoliticization, with the technical assistance of OHCHR (Canada); 18. To establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles (Germany); 19. To establish an independent national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles (Norway); 20. To establish an institution to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular to put in place a plan of action to protect and reintegrate street children (Mexico); 21. To apply the Recommended Principles and Guidelines of OHCHR when addressing the issue of trafficking (Germany); 22. To step up its efforts to combat the trafficking in persons and to formulate a national plan of action to prevent such trafficking (Belarus); 23. To strengthen human and financial resources earmarked for the new services responsible for human rights within the Ministry of Justice (Hungary); 24. To extend an open and standing invitation to all special procedures (Spain) (Argentina) (Latvia) 25. To continue to adopt legislation that would eliminate practices and cultural stereotypes that discriminate against women, especially discriminatory practices in the areas of land ownership, assets management and inheritance, all of which restrict women’s access to economic resources and, thus, to women’s autonomy (Chile); 26. To put in place effective measures to reduce inconsistencies between laws and practice, in order to tackle gender stereotyping and traditional attitudes that conflict with human rights (Norway); 27. To put in place measures to combat persistent attitudes and stereotypes regarding the role and responsibilities of women in society (Mexico); 28. To define torture in its domestic legislation and to make it a criminal offence with specific sanctions, in support of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (United States of America); 29. To investigate all allegations of torture, and to adopt a definition of torture in keeping with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in order to, inter alia, make torture an autonomous offence with adequate sanctions (France); 13