A/HRC/16/7 100.45. Take measures to strengthen women’s rights, in particular to encourage greater representation of women in public life and combat sexual and domestic violence (United Kingdom); 100.46. Take concrete steps to increase the representation of women in decision-making bodies (Norway); 100.47. Speed up the implementation of laws enacted regarding the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and enact adequate legislation that can put an end to the violence to which they are subjected (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)1; 100.48. Establish equal rights for all children, regardless of the marriage status of their parents (Bosnia and Herzegovina); 100.49. Make further efforts and take the legislative and administrative measures necessary to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities on the ground (Qatar); 100.50. Reconsider the legal status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and consider taking concrete steps to protect them from violence and discrimination (Norway); 100.51. Introduce policies aimed at ending discrimination against individuals on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation, and repeal legislation criminalizing homosexuality (Australia); 100.52. Repeal legal provisions which criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex (Canada); 100.53. Decriminalize homosexuality and, as a first step, declare a moratorium on the application of penalties (France); 100.54. Take measures to prevent human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity (France); 100.55. Ensure that its new Penal Code is fully consistent with international human rights standards and that it abolishes corporal punishment and the death penalty (United Kingdom); 100.56. Establish a moratorium on State executions with a view to formally abolishing the death penalty, in addition to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Canada);/establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty (Slovenia); 100.57. Consider abolishing the death penalty in the context of the moratorium (Chile);/abolish the death penalty (Austria);/abolish definitively the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Spain); 100.58. Take all measures to end the application of cruel, inhuman or degrading penalties such as flogging (France);/abolish criminal penalties that infringe on the physical integrity of convicts, for example, flogging 1 The recommendation as made during the interactive dialogue was “Eliminate any constitutional obstacles which prevent women from holding high offices, and speed up the execution of laws enacted on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and enact adequate legislation that can put an end to violence they are subjected to (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)”. 17

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