A/HRC/8/30 Page 16 II. CONCLUSIONS AND/OR RECOMMENDATIONS 54. In the course of the discussion, the following recommendations were made to Poland: 1. Recommended to Poland to endorse the recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Committee on the adoption of legislative measures to ensure compliance of national legislation with the principles and provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Angola); 2. While noting the measures taken by Poland to address the continuing occurrence of violence against children, recommended that measures be taken by the Government to ensure the sufficient legal protection of the freedom of children from physical or mental violence (Sweden); 3. Encouraged Poland to continue its efforts to ensure compliance of its domestic legislation with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically with regard to juvenile justice (Mexico); 4. Recommended that Poland set a date for the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (France); 5. Recommended to Poland to consider forming twinning relationships or partnerships with countries that have been through a process of legal reforms on minority issues to work closely with them on the legal, technical and institutional challenges involved in introducing change (United Kingdom); 6. Recommended to Poland to adopt an anti-discrimination law that would ensure equal treatment and non-discrimination on any grounds, including sexual orientation and gender identity (Slovenia, United Kingdom and Sweden); 7. Encouraged Poland to continue its efforts to address the issues of overcrowding of prisons and delays in court proceedings (Republic of Korea); 8. Urged Poland to give priority to the implementation of outstanding necessary improvements of prisons conditions (Denmark); 9. Having studied all the background information, recommended that a national programme to combat overcrowding in prisons be developed in order to bring Polish places of detention into line with international standards (Russian Federation); 10. Called upon Poland to alleviate the overcrowding of detention centres and to review the conditions of detention centres so that they are in conformity with minimum international standards. Also, recommended that limits be set for pretrial detention, according to minimum international standards (Algeria); 11. Recommended to systematically and continuously integrate a gender perspective in the follow-up process to the review (Slovenia); 12. Urged Poland to implement the recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against Torture to put in place legislative measures to sanction manifestations of repeated hate speech and intolerance (Slovenia);

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