A/HRC/19/12 96.5. Amend the Criminal Code and the Organic Code of Military Justice, eliminating the crimes of contempt and vilification (Norway); 96.6. Urge the National Assembly to adopt the draft legislation on trafficking in persons (USA); 96.7. Take the necessary measures to implement the UN Program on Small Arms and Light Weapons and revise the national legislation on this matter in order to reduce the existing homicide rate (Switzerland); 96.8. Act so that the right to life and physical integrity is effectively guaranteed and all instances of the State respect and protect the right of everyone to the freedom of expression (Switzerland); 96.9. Comply with the rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as established by article 23 of the Constitution (Belgium); 96.10. Engage actively in the fight against the misuse of power by the security forces (Czech Republic); 96.11. Take all the necessary measures to eliminate violence against women, also by ensuring that perpetrators of such violence are prosecuted and punished, as well as by abolishing the stereotypical attitudes and patriarchal patterns of behaviour that undermine women‟s human rights (Slovenia); 96.12. Take all the necessary legal and policy measures to prevent children and adolescents, from being subjected to labour exploitation and the worst forms of child labour, such as servitude, slavery, prostitution and trafficking (Slovenia); 96.13. Respect the independence of the judiciary (USA); 96.14. Work to ensure the independence of the judiciary (Canada); 96.15. Guarantee the independence of judiciary and take all the necessary measures to combat impunity (Switzerland); 96.16. Ensure independent, open and transparent selection procedures based on merit for judges and prosecutors (United Kingdom); 96.17. Take necessary measures to ensure transparency in the independent appointment of judicial and prosecutorial officers (Australia); 96.18. Reinforce the independence of the judiciary by increasing institutional and material support for the justice system and putting an end to the provisional nature of judicial appointments (Germany); 96.19. Fully guarantee the independence of the judiciary, in particular by taking concrete measures to ensure that judges can exercise their profession in full impartiality (France); 96.20. Reinforce the independence of the judiciary, including bringing to an end the provisional nature of judicial appointments an repealing the provisions of the Supreme Court law that undermine the court‟s independence (Slovakia); 96.21. Abolish the practice of using the judicial system to silence critics of the Government, reinforce the independence of the judiciary by increasing institutional and material support for the justice system and end the provisional nature of judicial appointments (Israel); 96.22. Investigate allegations of executive branch interference in judicial decision-making (USA); 20

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