A/HRC/17/6 89.60 Strengthen the national machinery for the advancement of women and take measures to overcome stereotypical attitudes regarding the roles of women and men in society (Ghana); 89.61 Ensure equal rights between women and men in areas such as work, education, public life and decision-making (Italy); 89.62 Try to promote gender equality, improve the status of women and eliminate violence against women (China); 89.63 Strengthen efforts to ensure that women in rural communities have better access to education and literacy and vocational training programmes (Trinidad and Tobago); 89.64 Declare a moratorium on the death penalty with the aim of its abolition; commute all death sentences to prison sentences; and sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR. (Spain); 89.65 Impose a formal moratorium on capital punishment with a view to abolishing it entirely in line with General Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168 as well as the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Slovakia); 89.66 Adopt a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR with a view to fully abolishing capital punishment (Italy); 89.67 Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty and supporting the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the moratorium on the use of the death penalty (Portugal); 89.68 Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aimed at abolishing the death penalty, and ICCPR itself and take all necessary steps to remove the death penalty from Saint Lucia’s justice system (Australia); 89.69 Maintain the de facto moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing it (Sweden); 89.70 Consider the abolition of the death penalty and not ending the existing moratorium (Germany); 89.71 Definitively abolish the death penalty (France); 89.72 Take prompt effective measures to uphold a total prohibition against torture (Sweden); 89.73 Conduct thorough and impartial investigation into all allegations of torture and physical abuse, and bring to justice anyone suspected of having committed excessive use of force, torture and other human rights violations (Sweden); 89.74 Further adopt policies and legislation to combat discrimination and violence against women and children, particularly domestic and sexual violence (Brazil); 89.75 Intensify awareness-raising with regard to violence against women, ensuring that perpetrators are speedily brought to justice, as well as eliminating discriminatory provisions with regard to family life and marriage in the Civil Code (Hungary); 89.76 Intensify efforts against gender violence through reforms that allow the prosecution of perpetrators without requiring that the victim lodge a 16