A/HRC/19/14 94.21. Consider the issue of introducing a moratorium for capital punishment (Russian Federation); 94.22. Prohibit corporal punishment as a form of sentence as well prohibit corporal punishment in all other settings (Austria); 94.23. Take measures to abolish the death penalty (Brazil); 94.24. Consider criminalizing torture under domestic law (Brazil); 94.25. Raise the age of criminal responsibility from now 7 to 12 years as the absolute minimum as recommended by the CRC (Austria); 94.26. Consider raising (from 7 years old) the minimum age of criminal responsibility (Brazil); 94.27. Provide for a child-sensitive, accessible complaint mechanism, ensuring a proper redress, rehabilitation and social reintegration and for the child victim of abuse (Slovakia); 94.28. Set a higher age of criminal responsibility for children and take all necessary measures to establish a specialised juvenile justice system, where children are treated in accordance with the principle of the best interest of the child (Slovenia); 94.29. Ensure the protection of the minors, including through adopting juvenile justice system and increasing the age of criminal responsibility for children (Indonesia); 94.30. Amend expeditiously the Births and Deaths Registration Act to ensure that all children born in Zimbabwe, regardless of their parents’ origin, are issued with birth certificates (Slovakia); 94.31. Incorporate in the Zimbabwe’s Draft National Policy on Domestic Water Supply and Sanitation the principles of the human rights framework created by the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (Portugal). 95. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Zimbabwe: 95.1. Set up independent mechanisms to fight against impunity towards perpetrators of human rights violations committed, including those committed before 2009, ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (France); 95.2. Ratify the CAT, the second Optional Protocol to ICCPR and withdraw its reservations to the 1951 Refugee Convention (Czech Republic); 95.3. Ratify the CAT, implement its standards into national law and take immediate and concrete actions against the practice of torture by State officials (Germany); 95.4. Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Poland); 95.5. Ratify the CAT, clearly criminalize torture and ban all kinds of corporal punishment (Portugal); 95.6. Consider amending the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission legislation in order to bring it in line with the Paris Principles (Zambia); 19

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