A/HRC/41/8 118.47 Strengthen efforts to reduce overcrowding in prisons by improving detention conditions and by reducing imprisonment of juveniles and the long duration of pretrial detention (Germany); 118.48 Improve prison conditions, particularly for young offenders, by reducing prison overcrowding and the use of pretrial detention, including through measures such as conditional release (Canada); 118.49 Allocate the necessary financial and human resources to ensure that persons deprived of their liberty, including adolescents, are treated in accordance with international standards, and strengthen the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (Greece); 118.50 Intensify its efforts to improve the conditions of detention centres with a view to encouraging reintegration of adolescents in conflict with the law into society (Turkey); 118.51 Continue efforts to improve detention conditions with a focus on juvenile detention centres (Italy); 118.52 Continue efforts to consolidate the independence of the national mechanism against torture (Tunisia); 118.53 Strengthen the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (Croatia); 118.54 Strengthen its national mechanism for the prevention of torture in its penitentiary system and investigate thoroughly all allegations of torture and illtreatment (Albania); 118.55 Establish an independent complaints mechanism to investigate all allegations of torture, excessive use of force and collective punishments in all detention facilities (Portugal); 118.56 Legislate the crime of torture as a separate offence in the Uruguayan Penal Code by March 2020, as set out in the United Nations Convention against Torture, to avoid potential loopholes that can foster impunity (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 118.57 Take immediate action to prevent cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by guards and staff in Uruguay’s prisons, including by training guards in conflict de-escalation, security procedures and suicide prevention, and investigating and prosecuting staff who perpetrate physical and psychological abuses (United States of America); 118.58 Continue efforts to implement the policy on truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence, in relation to human rights violations committed under the dictatorships (Cuba); 118.59 Take steps to ensure the safety of judicial officials and human rights defenders who participate in judicial proceedings concerning serious human rights violations perpetrated during the military dictatorship, and ensure that all alleged death threats against such persons are fully investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice (Ghana); 118.60 Step up its efforts in the process of investigating the human rights violations that occurred during the dictatorship period, as well as cases of obstacles being put to said investigations (Greece); 118.61 Abolish the Amnesty Law of 1986 and ensure that crimes against humanity, including acts of torture and enforced disappearances, and human rights violations committed between 1973 and 1985 are not subject to statutes of limitation, amnesty, immunities or other similar measures (Panama); 13