A/HRC/36/3 norms. The bill included provisions prohibiting calls to violence or hatred, threats to national security, violations of the rights and dignity of others or morality and infringement of any of the human rights principles. Executive and judicial measures were being taken to prohibit any incitement to sectarianism, violence, religious hatred or racism in the mass media, in accordance with the penal code and its amendments and the current press law promulgated by legislative decree No. 47 of 2002. Bahrain supported the rights of journalists to carry out their mission in freedom and independence, and penalized any assault against them, citing the existing penalties related to assaulting a public official, in conformity with articles 29-34 of the press law. 110. The Government had adopted an initiative on civil settlement to compensate those who had been harmed in the events of February and March 2011, based on a proposal by the national committee that had been established to follow up on the implementation of the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, without prejudice to the rights of the aggrieved parties to resort to civil proceedings that did not address criminal accountability. 111. Legislative decree No. 47 constituted the legislative framework for newspapers, the staff of which performed their role without any prior censorship of content; the decree also ensured equal opportunity among all newspapers with regard to obtaining information and news from sources and publishing such news, provided it was not based on, or that it did not spread, rumours. Any restriction on the free flow of information was prohibited. It was prohibited to oblige any journalist to divulge information sources. Slander, libel, defamation of reputation and inciting a person to commit a crime were prohibited. To date, no journalist had ever been imprisoned. 112. The Supreme Council for Women had paid special attention to the issue of children born to Bahraini women who were married to foreigners. The Cabinet had issued a decision accepting a bill to modify some provisions of the nationality code in order to allow those children to be granted Bahraini nationality in accordance with specific rules. The bill had been submitted to the legislature. 113. The head of the delegation of Bahrain extended his thanks to all of the States that had participated in the interactive dialogue, and his special thanks to the members of the troika and the Secretariat. He reiterated that Bahrain would continue to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the framework of the national action charter, the constitution, its legislation, its international obligations and the policies and programmes of the Government. Bahrain was looking forward to benefiting from the interactive dialogue under the universal periodic review mechanism, the Human Rights Council and the treaty bodies, and to strengthening its cooperation with OHCHR. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 114. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below will be examined by Bahrain, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the thirty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council: 114.1 Ratify the main human rights instruments to which Bahrain is not yet party, and adapt its national legislation to these and withdraw its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Spain); 114.2 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Estonia) (Uruguay) (Ireland); 114.3 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and abolish the death penalty (Portugal); Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Angola); 11