A/HRC/15/8 101.56. Urgently adopt legislation criminalizing female genital mutilation, and train members of the police, prosecutors and judges on the strict application of laws and regulations to be adopted in this field (Hungary); 101.57. Eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation (Japan); 101.58. Intensify its efforts to humanize its penitentiary system (Slovakia); 101.59. Adopt a comprehensive national policy aimed at the fight against child prostitution and the trafficking of children (Uruguay); 101.60. Take all appropriate measures to ensure for street children, who are vulnerable to various forms of violence, appropriate care and protection (Slovenia); 101.61. Take legislative and practical measures to ensure the independence and effectiveness of the judiciary (Austria); 101.62. Develop an administration of justice policy that would address principles of access to justice and public interest education, and take reform measures to address corruption, in particular within the judicial system (Germany); 101.63. Give priority to combating corruption and incompetence in the judiciary, and provide sufficient human and material resources for the administration of justice (Hungary); 101.64. Move forward on reform similar to that of the police of the judicial system, which has to this point proved inadequate to handle the cases of those suspected of involvement in the violence (Japan); 101.65. Establish an independent witness protection agency that is free of political influence (United States of America); 101.66. Provide adequate protection for witnesses of human rights violations (Netherlands); 101.67. Establish, through these efforts to address the issue of witness protection legislatively and administratively, a witness protection system (Japan); 101.68. Better protect witnesses giving evidence and human rights defenders (United Kingdom); 101.69. Effectively implement the recent legislation on police reform and witness protection (Austria); 101.70. Raise the age of criminal responsibility in order to bring it into line with international standards (Czech Republic); 101.71. Adopt and implement measures necessary to address the needs and challenges of juveniles in prison custody, including raising the minimum age of crime responsibility, in line with international standards (Slovakia); 101.72. Intensify its efforts to investigate and punish those responsible for punishable violence, especially that perpetrated by security forces and armed forces (Spain); 101.73. Take effective measures against police violence, in particular by ensuring comprehensive investigations and the prosecution of alleged offenders within the police and security forces (Austria); 17

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