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96.24. Establish a national human rights institution accredited by the
International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (South Africa);
96.25. Establish an independent elections body (Canada);
96.26. Enhance cooperation with labour-sending countries to ensure foreign
workers go through proper and legal channels to work in Singapore and
continue efforts to protect the rights of all foreign workers from exploitation
(Myanmar);
96.27. Strictly enforce relevant regulations including the Employment of
Foreign Manpower Act and the Passport Act, which prohibit employers to hold
on to passports, travel documents and work permits of their foreign workers
(Thailand);
96.28. Extend the protection afforded by labour law to the entire range of
domestic workers (Djibouti);
96.29. Adopt legal protection for migrant workers and enforce them,
including with respect to wages and working hours, and address allegations of
excessive agency fees and forced detention by “repatriation companies”
(Canada);
96.30. Implement measures adopted to educate foreign workers, in their
native languages, of their rights and responsibilities and avenues for assistance
(Sri Lanka);
96.31. Continue its path of developing a financial system that will allow for
assisting workers wishing to demand reparations in cases of litigation with their
employer (Switzerland);
96.32. Address the concerns raised by the Special Rapporteur on
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance and xenophobia in relation to concerns about migrants and the
living and working conditions of migrant workers, abolish corporal punishment
for immigration offenders and enact an anti-discrimination law (United
Kingdom);
96.33. Put in place measures to strengthen the protection of victims of
trafficking: among others, to screen and protect victims of human trafficking
instead of treating them as criminal offenders, to provide them with temporary
shelters during legal proceedings, to support witness protection programs and
to provide appropriate remedial measures other than deportation (Thailand);
96.34. Circulate and implement the United Nations Rules for the Treatment
of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders
(Bangkok Rules), which will further enhance administration of justice
(Thailand);
96.35. Repeal or at least narrow the restrictions on public discourse on the
issue of ethnicity, language, race, religion and politically sensitive issues in
order to ensure the full enjoyment of freedom of expression and freedom of
peaceful assembly and association (Slovenia);
96.36. Continue to engage with the United Nations special procedures and in
particular positively respond to the invitation requests by the Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special
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