A/HRC/38/7 115.41 Ensure the enactment and implementation of legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation, in addition to the design of public policies and concrete actions aimed at fully eradicating this practice (Ecuador); 115.42 Accelerate the process of adopting a draft law against gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation (Gabon); 115.43 Adopt criminal laws prohibiting all forms of female genital mutilation and cutting and initiate a public debate addressing harmful traditional practices (Germany); 115.44 Adopt legislation to prohibit all forms of female genital mutilation and cutting (Iceland); 115.45 Adopt legislation to ban all forms of genital mutilation and ensure that this practice be punished (Luxembourg); 115.46 Adopt criminal laws explicitly prohibiting female genital mutilation (Norway); 115.47 Set the minimum age of marriage at 21 for boys and girls and raise public awareness of this law, in particular among women and girls (Haiti); 115.48 Establish the same age of marriage for boys and girls as 18, and strengthen efforts aimed at ending child, early and forced marriage (Sierra Leone); 115.49 Adopt a legal mechanism to combat child and early marriage (Angola); 115.50 Amend existing legislation to raise the minimum age of consent for marriage to 18 years for women, as provided for in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) (Canada); 115.51 Repeal the Persons and Family Code to bring it into line with the constitutional prohibition of gender-based discrimination, including by granting equal succession rights to women and girls and raising the minimum age of marriage for girls to 18 years (Germany); 115.52 Raise the minimum age of marriage for girls to 18 years, without exception, in line with the Maputo Protocol (Iceland); 115.53 Align the minimum age of marriage for girls with international standards to 18 as opposed to 16, in order to eradicate early and forced marriage for girls (Namibia); 115.54 Increase the minimum age for marriage of girls to 18 years of age, in line with the Maputo Protocol (Luxembourg). 116. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below have been examined by Mali and have been noted by Mali: 116.1 Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Portugal); 116.2 Issue an open standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Ukraine); 116.3 Consider the possibility of extending a standing invitation to all United Nations special procedure mandate holders (Georgia); 116.4 Issue and implement a standing invitation to the thematic human rights special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Czechia); 116.5 Redouble its efforts to put an end to traditional and harmful practices, such as child and forced marriage, polygamy, humiliating and degrading practices and forced feeding (Honduras); GE.18-06102 21

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