A/HRC/15/7 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); 5 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). 19

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