A/HRC/31/15 117.113 Carry on making efforts to promote the rights of people with disabilities (Oman); 117.114 Adopt the necessary measures to protect ethnic and religious minorities from all forms of violence and discrimination (Costa Rica); 117.115 Improve the education of persons belonging to minority groups (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); 117.116 Ensure teaching and preservation of minority languages, by providing adequate general education to students in their native language (Austria); 117.117 Take the necessary steps to address concerns over the rights of vulnerable groups, including internally displaced persons, refugees and migrants, and carry forward measures to integrate them effectively into the broader social and political systems (Republic of Korea); 117.118 Continue to keep the principle of non-refoulement and limit the use and duration of detention for asylum seekers (Republic of Korea); 117.119 Strengthen measures to protect displaced persons and include them in public social development policies (Chile). 118. The following recommendations will be examined by Georgia, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the thirty-first session of the Human Rights Council, in March 2016: 118.1 Accede to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and recognize its Committee (Uruguay); 118.2 Amend the Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination to include a mechanism of fines and other sanctions for use by the Public Defender’s Office in the event of discriminatory actions (Sweden); 118.3 Amend the criminal code by incorporating the category of racist remarks to clearly define direct and indirect discrimination and recognize that racial, religious, national or ethnic grounds constitute an aggravating circumstance (Djibouti); 118.4 Prevent child marriage by having a minimum age restriction of marriage at 18 without any exception (Botswana); 118.5 Delimit child and early marriage by amending and unifying legislation, in particular, the Civil Code, to define the accepted age of marriage as 18 (Sierra Leone); 118.6 Establish a mechanism that monitors the implementation of the 2014 anti-discrimination legislation and action-oriented strategies (Iceland); 118.7 Strengthen the mechanisms set up by the “Commission of Human Rights and Integration”, to ensure the best possible monitoring and evaluation of the human rights situation in the country (Morocco); 118.8 Amend the legislation to ensure an effective follow-up instrument for the public defenders and the members of the national preventive mechanism (Andorra); 118.9 Redouble its efforts to ensure the rights of LGBTI persons and, in line with the Human Rights Committee’s recommendations, combat all forms of social stigmatization of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality, and 22

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