A/HRC/48/17 143.186 Continue increasing gender equality (Plurinational State of Bolivia); 143.187 Strengthen accountability mechanisms to address sexual and genderbased violence against women and girls, including sexual abuse and marital rape (Costa Rica); 143.188 Redouble efforts to completely eliminate female genital mutilation (Côte d’Ivoire); 143.189 Strengthen efforts in addressing rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls, by ensuring accountability and providing support to victims (Croatia); 143.190 Implement educational campaigns against female genital mutilation and early and forced marriages, aimed at all stakeholders, and enact legislation aimed at eradicating these harmful practices (Croatia); 143.191 Maintain the national efforts deployed in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence, with the objective of empowering women (Cuba); 143.192 Take further measures to eliminate gender-based violence and to ensure their effective implementation, including the total legislative ban on female genital mutilation (Czechia); 143.193 Prohibit all forms of female genital mutilation (Denmark); 143.194 Maintain and strengthen all measures aimed at eradicating female genital mutilation through the adoption and enforcement of laws prohibiting these practices in all their forms (Djibouti); 143.195 Increase efforts to fully eliminate female genital mutilation (Ukraine); 143.196 Intensify efforts to put an end to the phenomenon of female genital mutilation (Egypt); 143.197 Continue improving the rights of women and girls by prohibiting female genital mutilation (Eswatini); 143.198 Intensify efforts to fully eliminate female genital mutilation through progressive law reforms that prohibit the practice in all its forms and awarenessraising campaigns on the harmful effects of the practice on girls, women and wider society (Fiji); 143.199 Combat all forms of violence against women and girls, including female genital mutilation, and promote their rights, including access to sexual and reproductive rights and health (France); 143.200 Adopt a law specifically prohibiting female genital mutilation (Gabon); 143.201 Consider a national plan of action to combat sexual and gender-based violence (Gabon); 143.202 Enhance its efforts to combat all forms of gender-based discrimination (Georgia); 143.203 Accelerate the process of the adoption of the National Strategy for Reduction of Female Genital Mutilation (Georgia); 143.204 Ensure an end to the practice of female genital mutilation (Germany); 143.205 Implement awareness-raising programmes for parents, women, girls and traditional and religious leaders, as well as suitable legal instruments and financial and structural support for civil society groups fighting against all forms of female genital mutilation (Germany); 143.206 Continue to reinforce relevant measures to ensure the elimination of violence against women, including prohibition of all harmful practices such as female genital mutilation (Ghana); 20