A/HRC/55/7 116.183 Strengthen efforts to prevent the recruitment and use of child soldiers by armed groups, including by addressing the issue early in the new peace negotiations (Canada); 116.184 Implement additional measures to eradicate child labour and prevent recruitment and use of children and adolescents by armed groups (Ecuador); 116.185 Urgently strengthen measures to prevent the forced recruitment and exploitation of, and sexual violence against, children and adolescents by armed groups (Finland); 116.186 Strengthen the fight against the recruitment of children and adolescents by armed groups (France); 116.187 Enhance prevention and protection mechanisms against forced recruitment of minors (Germany); 116.188 Step up efforts to protect the civilian population in the territories most affected by violence and to prevent the grave violations against children, including their recruitment and exploitation by non-State armed groups and criminal organizations (Italy); 116.189 Take additional steps to prevent the recruitment of children by armed groups and also to address violence and threats against human rights defenders (Japan); 116.190 Continue to implement steps to prevent the recruitment and exploitation of children and adolescents by illegal armed groups and organized criminal groups, including by strengthening local capacities for countering, reducing and eliminating risk factors and the threat of recruitment (Malaysia); 116.191 Redouble efforts to guarantee the promotion and protection of the right of children and adolescents to live in a family, promoting models of family care alternative to institutionalization (Paraguay); 116.192 Step up efforts to prevent the recruitment and use of children by armed groups (Philippines); 116.193 Strengthen efforts to prevent the recruitment of children by non-State armed groups and criminal organizations (Poland); 116.194 Strengthen the work of the intersectoral commission for preventing the recruitment and exploitation of, and sexual violence against, children and adolescents by illegal armed groups and organized criminal groups, as well as the work of the National Reintegration Council (Thailand); 116.195 Continue to strengthen efforts aimed at preventing the recruitment and exploitation of children and providing them with all forms of support, care and assistance (Algeria); 116.196 Strengthen mechanisms to prevent the recruitment, utilization and use of, and sexual violence against, girls, boys and adolescents by armed and criminal groups (Argentina); 116.197 Take the necessary preventive measures to counter the phenomenon of the use and recruitment of children by the various armed groups, and set the age of 18 years as the minimum age for voluntary recruitment into the armed forces (Belgium); 116.198 Continue to reinforce mechanisms to safeguard women’s and children’s rights (Pakistan); 116.199 Take further measures to increase access by persons with disabilities to health care, the education system and the labour market (Indonesia); 116.200 Redouble its efforts to eliminate structural violations of the rights of persons with disabilities, especially in terms of access to primary and secondary education and access to the labour market (Poland); GE.23-25026 21