A/HRC/48/9 118.61 Step up efforts to improve the penitentiary system, which is in poor condition, in particular to find additional resources to deal with overcrowding (Russian Federation); 118.62 Continue efforts to improve detention conditions, including reducing overcrowding (Rwanda); 118.63 Step up efforts to ensure investigations and prosecutions of alleged abuses by law enforcement officials to curb violations such as torture and arbitrary detention (Botswana); 118.64 Reduce the use of pretrial detention and ensure that conditions of detention are in line with international standards (Switzerland); 118.65 Adopt policies as well as capacity-building and prevention measures against arbitrary detention, torture and excessive use of force by State agents, particularly in the follow-up of the health measures to combat COVID-19, and strengthen the capacities of investigation and judicial response in these areas (Brazil); 118.66 Continue reforms of the penitentiary system to address the issue of overcrowding in prisons, and improve living conditions, including in educational institutions, police stations and institutions for people with mental disorders (Uzbekistan); 118.67 Punish human rights violations committed by the Joint Task Force, such as arbitrary executions, abusive use of lethal force and torture (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 118.68 Adopt effective initiatives to confront the abusive use of pretrial detention and the serious prison overcrowding (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 118.69 Move forward without delay and in an impartial manner in the investigation of the murder of two 11-year-old Argentinean girls in the context of the Joint Task Force operation on 2 September 2020. To this end, Argentina reiterates its offer to make available the experience of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, internationally recognized for the seriousness of its work, to clarify the facts (Argentina); 118.70 Continue efforts to end abusive practices by security forces and to improve prison and detention centre conditions, including in the context of Paraguay’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Australia); 118.71 Continue to ensure that the rights of persons deprived of liberty are respected, and that it investigate all deaths of persons deprived of liberty and strengthen existing mechanisms for the prevention of torture (Guyana); 118.72 Strengthen its efforts to eradicate all forms of interference in the judiciary by other branches of government (Czechia); 118.73 Strengthen the judicial system, especially in the field of criminal jurisdiction, including with a view to overcome backlogs of cases (Germany); 118.74 Make effective efforts to further strengthen administration of justice (Japan); 118.75 Continue with efforts to strengthen the independence of the judiciary through concrete and transparent measures (Singapore); 118.76 Provide the office of the public defender with human, technical and financial resources necessary for its mandate (Uzbekistan); 118.77 Continue its efforts to combat corruption and impunity by ensuring judicial independence through the strengthening of the institutional framework (Republic of Korea); 15