A/HRC/43/3/Add.1 defenders, ensuring their protection and ensuring their access to justice, with a differentiated approach for indigenous defenders, women, youth, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, journalists, persons with disabilities, judges and prosecutors; (j) Urges the Government to guarantee freedom of expression and refrain from criminalizing the legitimate exercise of human rights in the context of public demonstrations and other forms of peaceful defence of human rights; (k) Urges all relevant authorities, in particular Congress, to guarantee that the Ombudsperson and his Office can carry out their constitutional mandate without undue interference, intimidation, harassment or other actions aimed at undermining their independence; (l) Urges the Government to prevent violence and insecurity, including by strengthening the capacities of the National Civil Police, guaranteeing a human rightsbased approach to security and ensuring the adequate allocation of resources and effective accountability mechanisms; (m) Urges the Government to prioritize the implementation of the Migration Code by adopting pending by-laws and strengthening the Guatemalan Institute for Migration, and to guarantee respect for international human rights norms and standards in the implementation of the cooperation agreement on protection requests, especially with respect to asylum seekers and persons in need of protection; (n) Encourages the ratification of pending international human rights instruments, notably the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) and article 14 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 17

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