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Take all appropriate measures to prevent and combat all forms of disability-based discrimination

Adopt legal provisions recognizing the full legal capacity of persons with disabilities

Take measures to prevent child marriage, including by developing a national action plan and dedicating resources for its implementation

Take further measures to prevent child marriage

Take steps with a view to prohibiting early and forced marriage

Take the necessary institutional measures to ensure that street children in transit centres are not subjected to arbitrary detention or ill- treatment

Ensure adequate resources for programmes focusing on children, especially children with disabilities

Ensure the proper application of Law No. 17/2017 establishing the National Rehabilitation Service so that no violation of the rights of the child is committed

Enact an explicit prohibition of the corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home

Put in place appropriate mechanisms to combat gender-based violence

Strengthen efforts to improve the constitutional and policy framework with an aim to ensure women’s participation in all levels of decision-making

Take further steps to improve the enrolment of women at the tertiary education level

Consider introducing a year of mandatory and free preschool education

Continue efforts to reduce maternal mortality rates, in particular by removing obstacles to access to termination of pregnancy in its existing legal clauses and continuing the public debate geared towards the ultimate decriminalization of abortion

Amend its legislation in order to legalize the termination of pregnancies in cases of risk to the life of the pregnant woman, rape, incest and severe impairment of the fetus

Provide families living in poverty with adequate social protection and create income-generating opportunities for them

Promote the integration of women into the labour force and adopt a gender-sensitive and adequately resourced employment policy

Facilitate the employment of persons with disabilities in both the public and the private sectors and ensure their access to all public services

Adopt and implement comprehensive policies to increase employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and take more measures to promote the integration of women into the labour force

Support, through economic and social policies, the institution of the family and the preservation of family values

Ensure effective protection of the rights of the child, especially with regard to prevention, prosecution and elimination of sexual exploitation of children

Establish effective mechanisms, procedures and guidelines for the mandatory reporting of cases of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of minors

Reinforce measures to protect the rights of children and youth from sexual violence, abuse and trafficking

Adopt a comprehensive policy to avert sexual exploitation and abuse of children, as well as all forms of slavery and trafficking

Eradicate child sexual exploitation and abuse by strengthening relevant legislation and establishing appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms

Accelerate the adoption of the bill on trafficking in persons and child labour

Accelerate the process of adoption of the national action plan against human trafficking

Complete the adoption of the national action plan against human trafficking

Protect the legitimate work of human rights defenders and political opponents

Strengthen its progress on democratization, the broadening of political and civil space and the protection of human rights defenders