A/HRC/33/14 109.51 Enact legislation to ensure women and girls’ rights are protected, including legislation banning early and forced marriages (Australia); 109.52 Ban early and/or forced marriages (Chad); 109.53 Take effective legal steps to eliminate child and forced marriage (Ghana); 109.54 Take concrete measures to prohibit and eliminate child or forced marriage (Panama); 109.55 Take action to ensure that the legal age of marriage of 18 years is enforced nationwide for both boys and girls (Maldives); 109.56 Raise the legal minimum age of marriage to 18 years for girls (Sierra Leone); 109.57 Protect girls from early or forced marriage both in law and in practice (Spain); 109.58 Take appropriate measures to prohibit corporal punishment in all settings (Montenegro); 109.59 Take the necessary steps to combat and eradicate forced labour (Honduras); 109.60 Amend laws and regulations governing the Judicial Service Commission, including by removing the Crown’s control over the Commission’s composition (United States of America); 109.61 Guarantee respect for civil and political rights, in particular freedom of expression and freedom of association, and take the necessary measures so that journalists, human rights defenders and members of all political parties can exercise their activities freely (France); 109.62 Remove all restrictions, in law and practice, which prevent the full enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression, association and assembly, and create an enabling environment for civil society in line with its previous universal periodic review engagements (Latvia); 109.63 Ensure unhindered enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression and an enabling environment, where members of civil society are not prohibited from exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, in accordance with the principles of democracy (this is also in line with international obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the undertaking made in the 2011 universal periodic review) (Netherlands); 109.64 Fully implement its constitutional provision on freedom of expression and establish a freedom of information law in accordance with international standards (Portugal); 109.65 Remove, in legislation and in practice, all restrictions preventing the full enjoyment of freedom of expression as guaranteed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other international documents (Ukraine); 109.66 Repeal laws that restrict civil rights, including the Royal Decree of 1973 and components of the Suppression of Terrorism Act, and develop a legislative framework to protect the rights to freedom of expression, association 23

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