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122.221 Take further action to ensure gender equality and women’s rights,
including access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as girls’
right to education, with a view to preventing child marriages and premature
pregnancies and promoting girls’ and women’s freedom of choice and autonomy
(Norway);
122.222 Develop and adopt a family code in accordance with international
human rights standards in order to raise the minimum age for marriage to 18
years, recognize the equal rights of women in inheritance and divorce matters,
as well as the equal legal status and protection of children born out of wedlock
(Panama);
122.223 Take steps to strengthen data collection on gender-based violence
against women and girls to ensure informed and responsive policy interventions
(Philippines);
122.224 Ensure universal access to quality and inclusive education and health,
including in rural areas, and combat all forms of discrimination in the access to
those rights, in particular against women and girls (Portugal);
122.225 Repeal all discriminatory legislation against women and girls,
including that related to early and forced marriage (Sierra Leone);
122.226 Consider prioritizing the National Gender-based Violence Prevention
and Response Strategy and its five-year action plan for the period 2017 to 2021
(South Africa);
122.227 Implement the amendment of 2019 to the law establishing the quota
system to increase the rate of female representation from 15 per cent to 25 per
cent for elected positions and from 25 per cent to 30 per cent for appointed
positions (South Sudan);
122.228 Continue stepping up efforts to promote women’s and children’s rights
through the effective implementation of the new policies (Azerbaijan);
122.229 Continue to take measures to increase the representation of women in
the National Human Rights Commission (Timor-Leste);
122.230 Continue awareness-raising campaigns and open and inclusive public
debates with the participation of all relevant stakeholders on the importance of
a comprehensive and coherent legal reform to achieve effective equality between
men and women (Togo);
122.231 Continue efforts to prevent gender-based violence, empower women,
promote gender equality, and address early and child marriages (Tunisia);
122.232 Raise the legal minimum age of marriage to 18 for girls and boys, as
well as prohibit, including under customary law, harmful practices associated
with child marriage (Belgium);
122.233 Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns and education on the
importance of gender equality from a human rights approach, including in its
parliament, with a view to making possible the withdrawal of national
reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women as soon as possible (Uruguay);
122.234 Redouble efforts to increase the representation of women in decisionmaking positions, particularly in legislative, executive and judicial institutions
(Senegal);
122.235 Accelerate ongoing awareness campaigns to eliminate child, forced
and early marriages (Zimbabwe);
122.236 Pass a law that strictly prohibits child marriage and increase the age
of marriage to 18 for girls (Côte d’Ivoire);
122.237
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Ensure the protection of children’s rights in practice (Estonia);
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