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schemes tailored to ethnicity, gender and regional circumstances (United States
of America);
120.64
Protect, in collaboration with civil society, human rights defenders
(France);
120.65
Ensure that activists, human rights defenders and other social and
community leaders, especially in rural areas, are equally and effectively
protected also in view of the current challenges facing the implementation of
the final peace accord, by, inter alia, ensuring an effective presence of
government institutions in all areas of the country (Germany);
120.66
Consider establishing a protection programme for women rights
defenders, taking into account their needs and realities from a genderdifferentiated perspective, and allocate adequate financial and human
resources for its implementation (Ghana);
120.67
Ensure the continuation of current measures to safeguard the work
of human rights defenders and the ongoing judicial investigations into the
murders of human rights defenders (Uruguay);
120.68
Continue to promote actions, through the National Reincorporation
Council, to consolidate the efforts of reintegration and political participation
(Dominican Republic);
120.69
Continue efforts to strengthen the institutional framework to protect
and guarantee the work of defenders and social leaders (Dominican Republic);
120.70
Take all measures to protect human rights defenders and ensure that
perpetrators of threats and attacks are brought to justice (Ireland);
120.71
Take steps to ensure the effective protection of human rights
defenders and of persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples
(Italy);
120.72
Take further measures to prevent systematic violence against local
leaders and human rights defenders, improve individual and collective
protection of those at risk, and focus on investigating and prosecuting the
intellectual authors of the threats and killings (Netherlands);
120.73
Prevent and investigate all attacks against human rights defenders
and community leaders, including trade unionists, indigenous leaders and
environmentalist defenders, and bring those responsible to justice (Norway);
120.74
Give greater consideration to human rights defenders, including
female defenders and youth-led organizations engaged in the defence and
promotion of human rights (Poland);
120.75
Effectively ensure the safety of human rights defenders, including by
conducting detailed investigations into the attacks against them (Republic of
Korea);
120.76
Reinforce measures to protect human rights defenders and to fight
impunity for attacks against human rights defenders (Slovenia);
120.77
Ensure that human rights defenders are able to carry out their work
free from intimidation, threats, harassment and attacks and guarantee their
safety, especially those working in rural conflict-prone areas (Sweden);
120.78
Advance in the recognition and protection of human rights defenders,
avoiding their criminalization and fighting impunity (Spain);
120.79
Fully implement the existing law pertaining to women’s participation
in elections (Sweden);
120.80
Develop in a participatory manner differentiated measures for
collective protection in relation to the communities concerned (Switzerland);
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