A/HRC/13/7 33. Strengthen its efforts to effectively combat domestic violence and provide adequate victims’ support, inter alia by creating sufficient shelter capacity (Netherlands); 34. Reinforce the strategy to combat domestic violence, including by making available temporary shelters for victims (Italy); 35. Adopt an effective strategy to combat domestic violence and ensure that women’s shelters are made available to ensure the security of victims of domestic violence (Sweden); 36. Intensify specific awareness-raising activities regarding sexual orientation at a national level to contribute to a better protection of the rights and freedoms of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals (Spain); 37. Take every possible action to speed up exhumation processes to enable the Committee on Missing Persons to continue its excellent work (Australia); 38. Enable the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus to continue working on the exhumation, identification and return of human remains (Chile). 39. Following concerns expressed by the Committee against Torture, investigate reported cases of physical ill-treatment by the police and ensure the rooting out of such unlawful practices (Israel); 40. Finalize a professional code of conduct for police and security forces, as well as investigate alleged breaches and prosecute as appropriate, to strengthen accountability and prevent future abuses and violations (United States); 41. Ensure that incidents of police abuse of detainees, including cases of abuse directed at immigrants, asylum-seekers and other foreign nationals, are prevented by strengthening legislation to protect the rights of arrested and detained individuals from physical mistreatment and ensuring that they are afforded a full complement of due process rights in accordance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (United States); 42. Improve the monitoring and implementation of measures to combat violence against women (Norway); 43. Adopt effective measures to combat violence against women in all its forms and allocate human and financial resources for the implementation of such measures, in particular regarding the protection of victims (Argentina); 44. Bring legislation governing the rights of the child into line with relevant international instruments and provide the office of the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights with the support needed for it to assume its role of preservation and protection of children’s rights (Algeria); 45. Do its utmost to guarantee that children, regardless of their descent status, are treated equally in law and in practice (Slovenia); 46. Improve prisons and detention facilities, particularly in police establishments (Italy); 47. Take concrete measures to follow up on the concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights related to trafficking and sexual exploitation of trafficking victims (Canada); 18

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