A/HRC/50/9 140.79 Adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the protection of journalists and human rights defenders (Spain); 140.80 Take measures to ensure that journalists and human rights defenders can carry out their work in an enabling environment, without fear of being victims of acts of intimidation or reprisal (Uruguay); 140.81 Take all necessary steps to ensure that civil society actors and human rights defenders can operate freely without fear of intimidation or reprisal (Australia); 140.82 Protect civil society actors, including human rights organizations, against any harassment or persecution and improve the legal framework so that it encourages and facilitates the operation of non-governmental organizations, as previously recommended (Czechia); 140.83 Ensure that any amendments to the Private Voluntary Organisations Act allow civil society to operate independently (Ireland); 140.84 Amend existing laws that govern civil society organizations, including the Private Voluntary Organisations Act, to ensure the protection of civic space and of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (Canada); 140.85 Enable free, fair and transparent elections in 2023 and in the future by undertaking substantive and concrete political and electoral reforms, including the implementation of the recommendations issued in the report of the European Union election observation mission to Zimbabwe in 2018 (Sweden); 140.86 Guarantee to persons under 18 years of age the right to sexual and reproductive health information, education and services (Iceland); 140.87 Ensure that all schools have access to the Internet (Eswatini); 140.88 Take measures to ensure 12 years of free primary and secondary school education for both girls and boys, as recommended by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Mauritius); 140.89 Strengthen its efforts to enhance access to prevention and early detection programmes for women and girls at risk (Thailand); 140.90 Strengthen efforts to address violence against women, children and all persons on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity (Fiji); 140.91 Broaden the definition of perpetrators of domestic violence in the Domestic Violence Act to include those not necessarily related to the victim or not living in the same household as the victim and engage in dialogue with the communities (Chad); 140.92 Abolish corporal punishment in all settings and strengthen child protection systems in full compliance with its international human rights obligations (Slovenia); 140.93 Develop a government plan for eliminating child marriage and amend provisions of the Marriage Act that permit child marriage (Marshall Islands); 140.94 Consider amending the provisions of the Marriage Act that permit child marriage, in line with the decision of the Constitutional Court (Sierra Leone); 140.95 Amend all ancillary laws that may have a direct relationship with the provisions prohibiting child marriage in order to ensure consistency and harmony in the legal framework (Belgium); 140.96 Establish birth registration centres at every district hospital in the country (Kenya); 140.97 Continue to adopt measures to facilitate the registration of all births and increase the rate of issuance of birth certificates (Turkey); 21