A/HRC/19/4 85.29. Consider strengthening the national gender machinery and put in place a comprehensive strategy, including legislation, to modify or eliminate traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation and stereotypes that discriminate against women, paying special attention to the situation of older women (Brazil); 85.30. Pursue and strengthen efforts to combat social practices harmful to women, in particular female genital mutilation but also all other violence against them as well as discrimination in their access to rights in general (Cape Verde); 85.31. Adopt the necessary measures to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation and to develop programs of awareness and education on its harmful effects (Uruguay); 85.32. Take appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against rural women with respect to ownership of land in line with the recommendations of CEDAW (Norway); 85.33. Launch a nationwide education and awareness campaign to prevent stigmatization of persons with albinism to ensure their security and facilitate their equal access to education and employment (Canada); 85.34. Strengthen efforts to protect the rights of all peoples with Albinism (Namibia); 85.35. Continue to ensure full and complete protection of persons with albinism (Djibouti); 85.36. Improve the access for persons with disabilities to education and health care, with particular focus on children (Slovakia); 85.37. Continue with awareness raising measures for the recognition and dissemination of the rights of persons with disabilities and to implement, as quickly as possible, the Law on persons with disabilities (Mexico); 85.38. Continue to work towards protecting and promoting the rights of marginalized and vulnerable population (Nepal); 85.39. Consider strengthening efforts to put a halt to incidents of killings of persons with albinism (Brazil); 85.40. Continue its public awareness campaigns and fast tracking of investigation and prosecution of criminal cases in order to demonstrate to the population that the issue of killing albinos was to be taken seriously (Hungary); 85.41. Continuously conduct nation-wide human rights awareness campaigns with specific emphasis on the right to life of people with albinism (Uganda); 85.42. Do more to provide updated and precise statistics on crimes such as assaults on albinos and extra-judicial killings of elderly women, and that murder of elderly women based on accusations of witchcraft is defined as a specific category in police reports (Norway); 85.43. Ensure that police officers having committed acts of torture of illtreatment be prosecuted and punished appropriately (Belgium); 85.44. Take adequate measures to protect its population from violence committed by the security forces and establish an independent mechanism for the investigation of complaints regarding abuses carried out by law enforcement officials (Denmark); 15

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