A/HRC/21/5
116. The following recommendations will be examined by Tunisia which will
provide responses in due time, but no later than the 21st session of the Human Rights
Council in September 2012:
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116.1.
Strengthen equality between men and women, including equality in
their rights to an inheritance (Austria); Eliminate discrimination
between women and men in inheritance rights (Poland);
116.2.
Continue to combat all forms of discrimination still faced by women,
notably those remaining in the Personal Statute Law in the areas of
inheritance and child custody (Belgium);
116.3.
Abolish discriminatory laws against women, maintain the Personal
Statute Law, and ensure that the rights it sets forth for women are
enshrined in the new Constitution (Canada);
116.4.
Remove the remaining reservation to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and align
its national legislation, including the Civil Code, with this Convention
to give women equal rights in matters of inheritance and
guardianship of children (Norway);
116.5.
Abolish legislation discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation,
in order to guarantee the same rights to all citizens, including LGBT
persons (Spain);
116.6.
Abolish the death penalty (Turkey). Integrate the abolition of the
death penalty in the new Constitution (Germany), (Italy);
116.7.
Sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
(Portugal);
116.8.
Abolish definitively the death penalty and ratify the Second Protocol
to ICCPR (France 4); Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR
and implement its provisions in national legislation through the
abolition of the death penalty (Ireland 1); Take all necessary
measures to abolish the death penalty and to ratify the Second
Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Norway 2); Abolish, once and for
all, the death penalty in conformity with the Second Optional
Protocol to ICCPR (Uruguay);
116.9.
Ratify the Second Optional of the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of
the death penalty, as it is an indispensable instrument in furthering
the enjoyment of the right to life (Hungary);
116.10.
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aimed at abolition
of the death penalty, which has not been applied in Tunisia for the
past 20 years (Belgium);
116.11.
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and the Optional
Protocol to the ICESCR (Spain);
116.12.
Establish a time line for incorporating the principle of equality
between men and women in the Constitution, and for the adoption of
a law and regulations to combat violence against women, including
domestic violence and marital rape (Honduras).
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