A/HRC/23/15/ 131.14. Ensure adequate protection for all citizens, including members of the LGBT community, by, inter alia, allowing them to assemble to publicly promote their human rights and identifying and prosecuting those who commit violence against those who participate in peaceful assemblies (United States of America); 131.15. Take concrete steps to protect its LGBTI citizens and their freedom of assembly and expression (Australia); 131.16. Enhance efforts to enable the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to exercise their fundamental freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly (Norway); 131.17. Respond effectively to discrimination and violence against LGBT persons and ensure their safety during public events such as the Belgrade Pride Parade (Austria); 131.18. Establish a more effective mechanism of dialogue with human rights defenders in the area of sexual minorities (Spain); 131.19. Denounce more forcefully all verbal and physical attacks on human rights defenders (Norway); 131.20. Effectively implement the relevant policies in the field of combating domestic violence in order to prevent domestic violence and to ensure impartial and prompt investigation and prosecution of perpetrators (Czech Republic); 131.21. Undertake steps to shorten the period needed for issuing protective orders against domestic violence and to improve the effectiveness of criminal sanctions for violations of protective orders (Slovenia); 131.22. Strengthen the judicial mechanisms designed to prosecute and punish perpetrators of trafficking in persons, especially in women and children, reinforcing reparation measures and reintegration services for victims (Uruguay); 131.23. Develop a clear definition regarding the sale of children in the Penal Code and ensure its full enforcement with serious punishment for perpetrators (Thailand); 131.24. Consider enhancing national efforts in the area of trafficking in person through adopting a definition for the sale of children and child pornography in the criminal code (Egypt); 131.25. Reinforce measures to prevent child sex tourism and to combat child pornography on the Internet (Republic of Moldova); 131.26. Adopt swiftly the comprehensive draft child rights law (Portugal); 131.27. That the draft child rights law forbid corporal punishment of children in all settings (Portugal); 131.28. Expedite necessary legislative measures to expressly prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family and alternative care settings (Uruguay); 131.29. Prohibit by law the corporal punishment of children, including in the family (Austria); 131.30. Ensure the rights of victims to truth, justice, reparation and nonrepetition (Switzerland); 17

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