A/HRC/22/9 108.30 Take necessary measures to ensure effective implementation of laws guaranteeing free registration of births nationwide, including by educating families and communities on the importance of birth registration in order to contribute, among other things, to eliminating the practice of early and forced marriage and increase access to education, health care and other public services (Canada); 108.31 Adopt necessary measures for free and compulsory registration of all children, including late registration, bringing forward new and more targeted campaigns to raise awareness among families, training social workers and health professionals and civil servants in charge of the registration and birth certificates and providing the necessary resources to establish registration offices in all the country (Uruguay); 108.32 Commute the sentences of inmates on death row (Switzerland); 108.33 Not resort to abusive pretrial detention and ensure that persons arrested or detained are promptly brought to trial in accordance with the guarantees contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (France); 108.34 Use all possible means to improve prison conditions, especially for minors and implement legislation to minimize detention time prior to trial (Norway); 108.35 Continue to apply specific legislation to improve the conditions of detainees and ensure the full respect of due process for them (Spain); 108.36 Improve prison conditions by considering the implementation of the relevant concluding observations already made by treaty bodies in this respect (Italy); 108.37 (Iraq); Improve the prison conditions and solve the problem of overcrowding 108.38 Adopt a concerted strategy to reduce the prison population, as overcrowding in prisons remains an issue in Benin (Netherlands); 108.39 Improve the conditions of prisons and other places of detention and reduce overcrowding by building more prisons or reducing the length of pretrial detention (United States of America); 108.40 Continue to strengthen its efforts to provide better legal protection for vulnerable groups, especially women (Netherlands); 108.41 Continue programmes to sensitize the population to ensure the effective implementation of the rights of women and children, and the protection of the family, the elderly and people with disabilities (Costa Rica); 108.42 Take appropriate measures to strengthen the fight against discriminatory practices and violence against women (Luxembourg); 108.43 Adopt rapidly all the necessary measures to put the law on violence against women into practice (Spain); 108.44 Apply rigorously the law on the prevention and punishment of violence against women (France); 108.45 Take all necessary measures to implement the Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Violence against Women in order to effectively eliminate all GE.12-18655 17