A/HRC/14/3 17. Continue efforts to promote human rights training and education for the police and army (Syrian Arab Republic); 18. Continue cooperating with the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, in accordance with its voluntary commitment to keeping the invitation to these procedures open (Dominican Republic); 19. Continue to strengthen efforts to promote and protect the rights of women, especially to eliminate discrimination and violence against women in all spheres (Thailand); 20. Consider providing sanctions against organizations that promote racial discrimination, and characterizing as criminal any act that promotes and incites racial discrimination (Egypt); 21. Take appropriate measures to combat racial prejudice in both the public and private media channels (Egypt); 22. Establish quick and effective measures to prevent, punish and eliminate violence against women taking into account the recommendations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Human Rights Committee on effective access to justice for the victims of gender violence, police protection and the establishment of shelters for victims (Mexico); 23. Take the measures necessary to combat violence against women effectively, increase women’s participation in all fields and bring national legislation into line with CEDAW (Azerbaijan); 24. Strengthen measures to prevent cases of domestic violence and the killing of women, and ensure that perpetrators be taken to justice (Italy); 25. Establish a specific policy and plan of action to eradicate sexual violence against women and girls (Germany); 26. Continue efforts to strengthen combating trafficking in women and girls and making trafficking in and sexual exploitation of women and children a criminal offence (Islamic Republic of Iran); 27. Initiate investigations, prosecute actively and punish adequately offenders involved in the trafficking and exploitation of women and children; implement fully national legislation on violence against women; and undertake immediate measures to establish shelters and implement effective police protection for victims as recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee against Torture (Israel); 28. Prohibit explicitly corporal punishment of girls and boys in all circumstances, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Chile); 29. Comply with the letter and spirit of the representations in its national report and ensure that civil society groups are able to operate without harassment or other forms of intimidation (United States of America); 30. Ensure that violence, threats and intimidations against human rights defenders are properly investigated and prosecuted (Belgium); 31. Strengthen independent procedures for prison inspection, reduce overcrowding in places of detention, separate minors from adults in prisons and 16