A/HRC/30/5 110.88 Develop and implement a comprehensive national action plan to prevent and address the consequences of child marriage by, inter alia, ensuring the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence against women and revising the legal incongruence concerning the minimum age of marriage (Thailand); 110.89 Develop and implement a comprehensive national action plan to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriages (Netherlands); 110.90 Continue to take concrete steps to eliminate child, early and forced marriage, such as Malawi’s recent passing of the law raising the age of marriage to 18 years (Canada); 110.91 Take effective measures to reduce child marriage (China); 110.92. Speed up the review of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act and strengthen the mechanisms to protect, compensate, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims (Slovakia);4 110.93 Take effective measures to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and intersex persons from violence and prosecute the perpetrators of violent attacks (Austria); 110.94 Strengthen and consolidate efforts to counter discriminatory practices and violence against women (Singapore); 110.95 Continue its actions to ensure effective respect of the rights of the child and to fight, in particular, against early marriages by adopting rapidly and implementing the marriage bill (France); 110.96 Continue working on the implementation of a national plan to combat violence against children and youth (Nicaragua); 110.97 Continue efforts in combating sexual violence against children regardless of the sex of the child starting with the review of related legislation to ensure prosecution of perpetrators and adequate rehabilitation and compensation for the victims (Thailand); 110.98 Continue implementing the national action plan to guide the progressive elimination of child labour (Cuba); 110.99 Take concrete measures to ensure that the anti-human trafficking act is effectively implemented and that albinos are provided equal protection by the law (Norway); 110.100 Ensure that the Trafficking in Persons Act comes into force and is implemented as soon as possible and implement a national action plan to strengthen coordination efforts against trafficking at the national level (Switzerland); 110.101 Vigorously investigate and prosecute trafficking offenders, under the recently passed Trafficking in Persons Act (United States of America); 4 The recommendation made during the interactive dialogue was: “Speed up the review of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, explicitly criminalize spousal rape and strengthen the mechanisms to protect, compensate, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims (Slovakia)”. 19

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