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14.
Ensure that all minorities, and particularly the Baha’i community, can
exercise all of their rights free from discrimination and persecution, in
conformity with the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee, the
Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Rapporteur on adequate
housing (Mexico);
15.
Put an end to discrimination and incitement to hatred vis-à-vis the
adherents of the Baha’i faith (Luxembourg);
16.
End incitement to hatred, including statements that show contempt for
General Assembly resolutions 60/7 and 61/255, on Holocaust remembrance and
Holocaust denial, respectively (Israel);
17.
Eliminate, in law and practice, all forms of discrimination against
persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic and other minorities, as well as
against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons (Israel);
18.
Revise legislative provisions that are discriminatory on the basis of sex,
religion, political opinion or sexual orientation (Luxembourg);
19.
Decriminalize consensual same-sex activity between adults and eliminate
legal provisions discriminatory to women and religious, national and other
minorities (Czech Republic);
20.
Abolish the death penalty (Luxembourg)/immediately stop executions
and abolish the death penalty (Germany)/amend the relevant legislation to
abolish capital punishment entirely, in keeping with General Assembly
resolutions 62/149 and 63/168, as well as the Second Optional Protocol to
ICCPR, and transfer the existing death sentences to imprisonment terms
(Slovakia)/consider a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to
abolishing it (Brazil)/ introduce a moratorium on the death penalty with a view
to its abolition (Italy)/extend the moratorium on the death penalty and abolish
the death penalty, especially for juveniles, in keeping with its international
commitments (Estonia)/introduce a moratorium on executions as soon as
possible (Belgium)/put an end to executions and adopt a moratorium on the
death penalty (France)/commute all death sentences, in particular executions of
political prisoners, and abolish, in practice, public executions by hanging and
stoning (Israel);
21.
Immediately halt the execution of juveniles and political prisoners and,
furthermore, establish an official moratorium (Canada)/comply with its
obligations under article 37 of CRC and article 6 of ICCPR and prohibit
executions of persons who, at the time of their offences, were under the age of
18 (Israel)/cease immediately the use of the death penalty, especially for minors
and those who committed offences while they were juveniles (New
Zealand)/favourably consider alternative sentences for juvenile offenders, and
immediately halt executions of all juvenile offenders on death row (Slovenia);
22.
Consider the elimination of cruel punishment, including juvenile
execution and stoning (Japan);
23.
Take immediate action to cease the practice of torture in detention
facilities, and investigate and prosecute allegations of torture (United States of
America);
24.
Eradicate, in national legislation and in practice, torture or other cruel,
inhuman and degrading treatment (Israel);
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