A/HRC/8/50 Page 16 14. To extend the juvenile justice system to the whole country and create alternative forms of deprivation of liberty for children in conflict with the law (Mexico); 15. To serve as a model for the freedom of the press by ensuring that all journalists and media outlets, including those that may be viewed as critical to the Government, are free from harassment (United States); to take all possible measures to ensure the full protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (Republic of Korea); 16. To promptly adopt the bill to abolish the death penalty (Luxembourg); to continue efforts to abolish the death penalty (Portugal); 17. To promptly adopt the bill on a new citizen’s code (Luxembourg); 18. To adopt measures to combat violence, in particular through legislation defining and outlawing domestic violence, and by providing training to judges and civil servants and organizing awareness-raising programmes targeting society as a whole (Switzerland); 19. To improve prison conditions by reducing overcrowding and ensuring access to adequate medical treatment (Ireland); 20. To take the necessary measures to strengthen the independence of the judiciary, to eliminate corruption and to ensure that the conditions of persons deprived of their liberty are in conformity with relevant international standards (Canada); 21. To raise awareness regarding human rights and the rule of law (Portugal). 57. The following recommendations will be examined by Mali which will provide responses in due time. The responses of Mali will be included in the outcome report to be adopted by the Human Rights Council at its eighth session. 1. To issue and implement standing invitation to special procedures mandate-holders (Czech Republic); 2. To enact legislation prohibiting all forms of traditional practice of FGM in line with recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee, CEDAW and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Netherlands); to consider the practicability of enacting legislation prohibiting FGM (Japan); to enact legislation prohibiting all forms of FGM (Ireland); to adopt legislative and other measures, including

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