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Enact, with immediate effect, the new Media Law passed by the Lower House of Parliament.

Include civil society and human rights defenders in the development of legislation and decision-making processes, through an institutionalized consultation process.

Take further steps to eliminate torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and to ensure an effective and impartial judicial system.

Take timely and efficient measures to ensure that the national legal framework properly incorporates international standards and conventions, ratified by Afghanistan, pertaining to women's rights, for example CEDAW.

Stimulate those citizens with social influence, such as political leaders, journalists, artists and social elements with high visibility to increase society's awareness of human rights.

Take all steps necessary to combat discrimination and violence against women, both in regards to legislation and awareness-raising to ensure that women are informed of their rights.

The Afghan Government sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, abolish the death penalty and commute the sentences of those facing execution.

Introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition.

Take steps to ensure that the principle of speedy trials be duly taken into account in the context of the ongoing human rights trials.

Improve respect for the right to freedom of assembly in line with its domestic legislation and its obligations under article 21 of the ICCPR

Put in place further measures to ensure respect for freedom of expression and of the media

Take concrete steps and ensure that all necessary resources are provided to government agencies in order to increase the efficiency of a child protection system

Increase the efforts to ensure that detention conditions fully meets international human rights standards

Consider abolishing the pre-approval requirement for public assemblies altogether and to replace it with an obligation of notification for the organisers of public assemblies.

Fully uphold media freedom in accordance with international obligations

Undertake a comprehensive study on child abuse in order to understand its scope and to suggest ways to prevent it.

Take necessary measures, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to prevent child abuse and neglect and increase efforts to ensure the registration of all children at birth.

Establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Consider the possibility of acceding to the other major human rights instruments, in particular the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Abolish the death penalty.

Implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination regarding migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.

Withdraw reservations to CEDAW

Strongly encouraged to abolish the death penalty, and while awaiting such decision, to adopt a moratorium on executions

Focus more efforts on combating violence against women and provide authorities with more training in this regard.

Take steps to enact legislation to enshrine a specific right of non-discrimination on the basis of gender, in accordance with article 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Allow for the distribution of condoms within its prisons in order to stem the prevalence of HIV-AIDS in these institutions.

Investigate duly and promptly allegations of misconduct, abuse and violence by public agents and take adequate action against those responsible for such crimes.

Deploy further efforts in training security forces in the field of human rights.

Establish as a priority a reform of the judiciary by strengthening a justice system which would be better able to combat impunity and corruption, including by putting an end to exaggerated pre-trial detention.

Investigate allegations of torture and ill treatment and bring to justice those responsible in line with international standards.