A/HRC/15/12 71.50. Undertake a comprehensive review of prison conditions to ensure that all detainees are treated humanely and in compliance with international standards (Canada); 71.51. Take steps in order to alleviate the scale of overcrowding in prisons and improve the conditions of those detained (Hungary); 71.52. Alleviate overcrowding in prisons by encouraging alternative sentences to incarceration where appropriate (Canada); 71.53. Review prison regulations to prohibit the reduction of diet as a form of punishment (Canada); 71.54. Ensure that juveniles are detained separately from adults, without exception (Slovenia); 71.55. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an acceptable level, in compliance with international standards (Slovakia); 71.56. Take the appropriate measures to implement a separate juvenile justice system, and consider providing separate detention facilities for minor cases in appropriate cases (United States); 71.57. Take steps to implement a juvenile justice system, and introduce training programmes for all personnel involved in working with children in jail (Canada); 71.58. Strengthen the protection framework for children’s rights, particularly through measures to prevent child abuse, exploitation and violence against children; review the juvenile justice system in order to raise the age of criminal responsibility, in accordance with international standards; and continue its efforts to guarantee the separation of minors from adults in detention facilities (Mexico); 71.59. Strengthen its policy for the full guarantee of the rights of the child, with attention to the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, according to resolution 11/7 of the Human Rights Council and resolution 64/142 of the General Assembly (Brazil); 71.60. Establish an independent complaints mechanism for children in alternative care institutions (Slovakia); 71.61. Abolish provisions in its domestic legislation that authorize the corporal punishment of children in all places, in particular in detention facilities and in schools (France); 71.62. Adopt a law that prohibits corporal punishment against children in all areas of life (Uruguay); 71.63. Enhance the programmes aimed at protecting children from all forms of abuse (Algeria); 71.64. Amend the Criminal Code to ensure equal protection of boys and girls from all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation as well as to eliminate corporal punishment provisions from existing laws and to prohibit the use of corporal punishment in places of detention and in schools (Germany); 71.65. Adopt and implement the measures necessary to prevent abuses, namely, the ill treatment and abuse of children, including sexual abuse, as referred to by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and ensure that such abuses are properly prosecuted within a child-friendly judicial procedure, 15