A/HRC/18/10 81.11. Consider establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles (Poland); 81.12. Allocate the resources required for the Sierra Leone Human Rights Commission to carry out its core statutory functions (Australia); 81.13. Strengthen the work of the Human Rights Commission in line with the Paris Principles (Indonesia); 81.14. Give adequate resources to the Human Rights Commission to enable it to discharge faithfully the onerous duty of protecting and promoting human rights in Sierra Leone (Ghana); 81.15. Acknowledge and enhance the important role of women in peacebuilding and in the decision-making process. (Indonesia); 81.16. Continue to strengthen its efforts and its track on socio-economic and political reforms in the bid to enhance the promotion and protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms (Nigeria); 81.17. Maintain efforts to promote and protect the rights of children, young people, persons with disabilities and women, and seek to overcome the low representation of women (Cuba); 81.18. Implement further policies to ensure gender equality and the promotion of the rights of women and children throughout society (South Africa); 81.19. Investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible for rape and other forms of gender-based violence (Norway); 81.20. Adequately staff Family Support Units in police stations to address violence against women (Austria); 81.21. Ensure that Family Support Units are located at police stations tasked with investigating and providing support to victims of sexual violence, and are adequately staffed and resourced so as to be able to carry out their mandate (Hungary); 81.22. Raise awareness by the poor and marginalized population of the legal provisions of the Domestic Violence Act; open investigations into all complaints lodged relating to domestic violence; and prosecute all cases and provide victims to appropriate services, especially the possibility to benefit from a free medical report and legal aid (Switzerland); 81.23. Intensify its efforts to combat domestic violence including rape and work against the impunity for this violence; take measures such as awarenessraising and training of the police officials in the judicial system and medical officers (Sweden); 81.24. Take all appropriate measures to address violence against women effectively and more specifically to eliminate FGM, including by making its performance a criminal offence (Austria); 81.25. Introduce an effective system towards the elimination of female genital mutilation (FGM) and develop governmental policy in this regard (Japan); 81.26. Facilitate an inclusive national dialogue on female genital mutilation and put in place, in cooperation with tribal chiefs, religious leaders and women’s groups, effective measures to eliminate the practice (Canada); 17

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