A/HRC/29/12 96.61 Improve the implementation of the National Action Plan on Female Genital Mutilation, by strengthening it with awareness-raising campaigns and by working with traditional leaders in order to fully eradicate this practice, while strengthening likewise the means and initiatives of the National Committee for the Elimination of Harmful Practices (Spain); 96.62 Continue to fight against female genital mutilation and early marriages (Djibouti); 96.63 Take practical steps, including through public information campaigns and greater community-level engagement, to accelerate the eradication of FGM and to reduce the number of child, early and forced marriages (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 96.64 Enhance efforts to eliminate FGM, as well as the early and enforced marriage of girls (Portugal); 96.65 Continue deepening measures aimed at achieving the eradication of practices such as female genital mutilation and cutting, as well as forced marriages (Argentina); 96.66 Continue its efforts to fight against discrimination and violence against women, in particular with regard to FGM and forced and early marriages (France); 96.67 Enforce national legislation in rural areas in order to prevent child, early and forced marriage (Sierra Leone); 96.68 Strengthen efforts to eliminate early and forced marriage (Maldives); 96.69 Take measures to prevent child, early and forced marriages, including through awareness-raising campaigns and measures for the monitoring of the implementation of existing legislation and by promoting the enrolment of girls in schools (Canada); 96.70 Adopt measures that ensure compliance with the Law on Reproductive Health, by promoting the provision of education allowances in areas with high rates of forced and early marriages (Spain); 96.71 Investigate and vigorously prosecute crimes perpetuated against vulnerable groups, such as the disabled and persons with albinism (Sierra Leone); 96.72 Take the necessary measures to prevent the ritual murder of persons with albinism, children with disabilities, twins, and children accused of practising witchcraft, to investigate and prosecute those suspected of committing these crimes, and to increase efforts to raise awareness of the need to eradicate such practices (Ireland); 96.73 Adopt specific laws that prohibit discrimination and protect girls, children with disabilities and children with HIV/AIDS; undertake, in addition, awareness-raising campaigns to promote the dignity and rights of children with albinism, twins, children with disabilities and children accused of witchcraft, in order to combat the abandonment and/or execution, of which they are victims (Mexico); 96.74 Explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings (Slovenia); 18 GE.15-07685

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