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97.27. Strengthen the Police Complaints Authority and the Directorate on
Corruption and Economic Offences; increase training for law enforcement
officers; and increase the capacity of Lesotho’s police force and other public
agencies to gather data and share that data with the international community
so that improvements can be tracked (United States);
97.28. Adopt the Media Policy in Parliament (Norway);
97.29. Implement appropriate policies and measures, including care and
rehabilitation, to prevent the sexual exploitation of children (Netherlands);
97.30. Disseminate information to the population to increase awareness of
women’s rights and, in particular, of the 2006 Legal Capacity of Married
Persons Act (Canada);
97.31. Do more to prohibit persistent forms of discrimination, such as issues
of discrimination in inheritance rights, and to strengthen the principle of
equality for women, particularly at top levels of political party leadership
(United States);
97.32. Ensure full implementation of the principle of non-discrimination, inter
alia, by amending domestic legislation and increasing awareness among the
population (Germany);
97.33. Implement a plan to combat violence against women and to guarantee
equal rights, abrogating the legal provisions that prohibit women from
borrowing, signing contracts, opening bank accounts or applying for a passport
without their husband’s authorization (France)5;
97.34. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and abolish child
corporal punishment (Brazil);
97.35. Consider enacting specific domestic legislation on combating domestic
violence and human trafficking (Philippines);
97.36. Ensure that cases of domestic violence, ill treatment, sexual and other
abuse within the family are properly investigated and that perpetrators are
sanctioned (Netherlands);
97.37. Investigate cases of domestic violence, ill treatment, sexual and other
abuse within the family, and apply sanctions to perpetrators (Germany);
97.38. Set up credible mechanisms to investigate human rights violations
carried out by the security forces in order to allow for the compensation of
victims and to bring to justice those responsible for these acts (France);
97.39. Carry out the legal reforms necessary to ensure an independent
judiciary (Netherlands);
97.40. Consider the establishment of an efficient, child-friendly mechanism
through which children can make complaints on abuses of their rights
(Slovakia);
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Recommendation originally read: “Implement a plan to combat violence against women and to lift its
reservations to CEDAW and to guarantee equal rights and abrogating the legal provisions which
prohibit women from borrowing , signing contracts, opening bank accounts or applying for a passport
without their husband’s authorization” (France).
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