A/HRC/27/9 94.20 Repeal all provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity, including those in the Sexual Offences Act (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 94.21 Repeal provisions in national law that criminalize same sex relations, including in the Sexual Offences Act, and take steps to ensure the rights of these persons are protected (Australia); 94.22 Modify existing sections of the Criminal Code that apply to buggery and indecency so that same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults is not criminalized, and adopt legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (United States of America); 94.23 Establish anti-discrimination laws and regulations ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and other vulnerable groups enjoy equal treatment (Netherlands); 94.24 Reinforce its anti-discriminatory legal framework in order to provide for a strengthened protection of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community (Italy); 94.25 Maintain the de facto moratorium on the death penalty and consider abolishing the death penalty all together (Slovenia); 94.26 Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty (Sierra Leone); 94.27 Take all necessary measures to establish a formal moratorium on executions, with a view to abolishing the death penalty (Brazil); 94.28 Consider adopting a de jure moratorium on the death penalty soon, with a view to abolishing the death penalty (Italy); 94.29 Abolish the death penalty and accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Costa Rica); 94.30 Abolish the death penalty in law and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (France); 94.31 Take appropriate legislative and administrative measures to combat domestic violence and physical ill-treatment against children, including the prohibition of the practice of corporal punishment (Costa Rica); 94.32 Continue its efforts to promote the rights of the child and work towards the elimination of the use of corporal punishment in school (Maldives); 94.33 Align the definition of children in all juridical instances and ensure that no life sentence is applied to any child under the age of 18 years (Mexico); 94.34 Prohibit sentences of corporal punishment for children and life imprisonment of children under the age of 14, under all systems of justice and without exception, to ensure full compliance with international standards (Germany); 94.35 Adopt a law that guarantees freedom of information (Spain); 94.36 Decriminalize defamation (Spain); 94.37 Decriminalize defamation and place it under the Civil Code in accordance with international standards (Ireland). 20