A/HRC/19/7 88.44. Forbid the corporal punishment of children through the abolition of the laws that permit its use in the home, schools and detention centres for minors (Spain); 88.45. Take all necessary measures to fight efficiently against impunity, notably by providing the necessary means to the organ charged with systematically investigating all allegations of torture and ill-treatment and by clarifying its status (France); 88.46. Ensure better control of the State’s Security Forces, especially by promoting independent investigations into the cases of human rights violations in which they have been implicated (Spain); 88.47. Continue implementing measures to bring police officers responsible for abuses to justice, such as the amendment to the Police Complaints Authority Act, enabling investigation on criminal offences involving police officers, like corruption and serious misconduct (Canada); 88.48. Repeal as soon as possible the provisions in the Penal Code and particularly articles 13 and 16 of the law on sexual offences of 1986, penalizing sexual relations between consenting individuals of the same sex (France); 88.49. Repeal all provisions of domestic law that criminalise same sex relations between consenting adults including the Sexual Offences Act (New Zealand); 88.50. Repeal all provisions that criminalize consensual same sex relationships between adults or discriminate against homosexuals (Germany); 88.51. Regarding the situation of LGBT community, adopt legislative and political measures to establish a specific framework of protection from discrimination for sexual preference. Additionally, put in place public awareness raising campaigns on the matter (Spain); 88.52. Strengthen the protection safeguards, in particular the control mechanisms that allow the detection of cases of migrants with special needs for international protection (Chile). 89. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Trinidad and Tobago: 89.1. Consider re-acceding to the American Convention on Human Rights (Mexico); 89.2. Consider positively the acceptance of the contentious jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Mexico); 89.3. Repeal the death penalty (Canada); 89.4. Abolish the death penalty (Brazil); 89.5. Abolish the death penalty definitively in accordance with the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Uruguay); 89.6. Abolish the death penalty and to consider ratifying the second Optional Protocol to ICCPR. (Romania); 89.7. Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and take all necessary steps to remove the death penalty from Trinidad and Tobago law (Australia); 19

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