A/HRC/19/12 95.3. Ratify CED and the other major human rights instruments it has not yet ratified (Japan); 95.4. Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons as well as the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Slovakia); 95.5. Implement a comprehensive disarmament policy and strengthen the judicial system to reduce levels of impunity (Norway); 95.6. Provide the judiciary with adequate human and financial resources for its effective functioning with special attention to the respect of the legislation regarding the preventive detention (Belgium); 95.7. Formulate a National Human Rights Plan, in accordance with the Vienna Declaration and consulting broadly with civil society (Brazil); 95.8. Issue a standing invitation to all Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (Uruguay); 95.9. Extend a standing invitation to all UN special procedure mandate holders (United Kingdom); 95.10. Extend standing invitations to thematic special procedures of international and regional human rights bodies and allow such visits to Venezuela (Norway); 95.11. Strengthen the cooperation with mandate holders, even considering the extension of a standing invitation, as Brazil has (Brazil); 95.12. Invite representatives of international human rights organizations to visit Venezuela, including by issuing a standing invitation to the UN special procedures (Australia); 95.13. Accept visit requests from the UN Special Rapporteurs and the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (USA); 95.14. Take all necessary measures to ensure that all cases of societal violence are effectively investigated and perpetrators prosecuted and punished (Czech Republic); 95.15. Take steps to protect freedom of expression and opinion, in line with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Australia). 96. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: 96.1. Comply with its international obligations in respect to the judiciary and the right to freedom of expression and implement recommendations, resolutions and decisions of the international and regional human rights protection systems (Slovenia); 96.2. Review the Law of Political Parties, Public Meetings, and Demonstrations and its compliance with the article 201 of the Constitution (Czech Republic); 96.3. Harmonize the Venezuelan legal framework related to the right to the freedom of expression with the country‟s international obligations (Slovakia); 96.4. Amend the current legislation regarding the media to eliminate the criminalization of „desacato‟, contempt, libel or slander, in line with the international human rights standards (Canada); 19

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