A/HRC/8/50 Page 17 awareness-raising campaigns, to discontinue the existence of harmful traditions and practices undermining the equal enjoyment of human right by women; in particular to adopt and implement legislation prohibiting and criminalizing FGM as well as domestic and other forms of violence against women (Czech Republic); to promptly adopt appropriate legislation, which prohibits excision and all forms of FGM and ensures that all those responsible for excision are duly punished (Switzerland); to take, together with sensitization and awareness-raising campaigns, the necessary legislative measures to prohibit FGM (Mexico); to ensure that laws combating FGM and forced marriages are compatible with its international human rights obligations and that resources are allocated, including through multilateral international cooperation, to fully implement such laws (Portugal); to take the necessary measures to implement the recommendations of CEDAW and the Human Rights Committee concerning violence against women and FGM (Canada); 3. To establish legal equality between men and women with a view to abolishing any discrimination and all violence, including domestic violence suffered by women and girls, and legally ban FGM (Luxembourg); 4. To increase and raise awareness throughout the country against of forced labour, paying special attention to groups such as the Bellah, or black Tamacheks (United States); 5. To revise the so-called “insult law” (Czech Republic); to respect the freedom of opinion and expression and to abstain from imposing penal sanctions on journalists because of their articles (Canada). 58. One recommendation noted in the report in paragraph 18 above (to put an end to all slavery-related practices in the country) did not enjoy the support of Mali, since slavery does not exist in Mali. 59. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect the position of the submitting State(s) and /or the State under review thereon. They should not be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole.