A/HRC/25/8 129.16. Ratify the Kampala convention and create an adequate national and legal policy framework to effectively deal with internally displaced people (Uganda); 129.17. Make further efforts to review the Constitution with a view to explicitly recognizing economic, social and cultural rights equally with other constitutional rights (Uruguay); 129.18. Grant a legal rank to the ICESCR that allows its provisions to be directly invoked in the domestic legal system (Uruguay); 129.19. Review article 16 (4) (c) of its Constitution to ensure that such a provision is not discriminatory against women (Trinidad and Tobago); 129.20. Extend a standing invitation to the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations (Costa Rica); 129.21. Extend a standing invitation to the special procedures of the United Nations (France); 129.22. Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Czech Republic); 129.23. Finalize issuing a standing invitation to the United Nations mandate holders, which was already declared to be considered after the first round of the universal periodic review (Turkey); 129.24. Remove norms, including at the constitutional level, that may be deemed as an exemption from the prohibition of discrimination, and take practical measures for its implementation (Costa Rica); 129.25. Promote concrete action to combat inequality and guarantee the participation of women in social, cultural, political and economic development through affirmative action programmes (Mexico); 129.26. Continue to promote women’s participation in decision-making and political participation by providing necessary assistance and capacity building, as well as gradually increasing proportion of women parliamentarians (Thailand); 129.27. Consider introducing temporary special measures in areas where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged and raise awareness among parliamentarians and government officials about the necessity of such measures (Egypt); 129.28. Introduce special measures in areas where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged and raise awareness among parliamentarians and other government organs (Uganda); 129.29. Adopt legislation that explicitly prohibits corporal punishment, and continue awareness raising campaigns on the negative effects of corporal punishment (Uruguay); 129.30. Ensure that the new Police and Criminal Evidence Bill fully addresses the practice of detention on the basis of “provisional information” by specifying that detention beyond a short time limit, defined in statute, is only possible once a suspect is formally charged (United Kingdom); 129.31. Repeal the sections of its Criminal Code that criminalize consensual homosexual activity (Australia); 23

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