A/HRC/18/18 79.46. Vigorously investigate all reports of sorcery-related killings to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice, and develop and implement strategies, including for social and cultural change, to prevent further killings (United Kingdom); 79.47. Circulate and implement the recently adopted United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), and seek necessary support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and OHCHR (Thailand); 79.48. Ensure that all complaints on gender-based violence, regardless of perpetrators, be investigated and brought to justice (Maldives); 79.49. Undertake effective measures to ensure the accessibility of legal and judicial services to persons in rural and remote areas (Malaysia); 79.50. Implement programmes to increase the human rights awareness of village and community leaders, and develop measures to ensure that decisions made by village courts are in line with international standards, particularly the principle of non-discrimination, and, at the same time, take measures to promote among its citizens greater awareness of their rights and access to the formal judicial system (Thailand); 79.51. Provide adequate judicial review and compensation for cases of government projects that have negative environmental impact on the land and resources of traditional landowners to ensure that their rights to property and right to environment are duly respected. Engagement with local communities in the decision-making process of any government project should also be promoted (Thailand); 79.52. Decriminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex (Slovenia); 79.53. Decriminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex (France); 79.54. Amend national legislation to include “sexual orientation” and “gender” as prohibited grounds for discrimination (United Kingdom); 79.55. Take concrete and practical measures to protect human rights defenders who, according to a United Nations joint report, have been threatened, attacked and in some cases murdered (Haiti); 79.56. Review its laws relating to abortion and, more specifically, remove punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion and provide them with access to quality services for the management of complications arising from unsafe abortion (Czech Republic); 79.57. Step up efforts to improve and conserve the environment, including by strengthening the relevant laws and providing the public with the necessary information, education and awareness regarding the impacts of climate change and environmental pollution and degradation (Malaysia); 79.58. Increase its scrutiny over extractive and logging industries and associated companies and businesses, with a view to reducing its negative impact on the environment and, consequently, its negative effects on the full enjoyment of human rights (Maldives); 19

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