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Place the rights and participation of children and older persons in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies

Take further measures regarding the remaining key areas where improvements need to be made – most notably in relation to vulnerable groups of residents, in particular women, persons with disabilities and children

Continue working with relevant stakeholders in order to improve access to quality education

Strengthen enforcement of laws criminalizing child abuse and sexual exploitation of children, including by thoroughly investigating and prosecuting all acts of sexual violence against children and providing training to law enforcement officials on the handling of cases involving child maltreatment

Consider developing policies and awareness-raising measures to promote the rights of children with disabilities and children living in the outer islands, in particular with regard to access to education, health care and services, and development

Take the necessary legal and administrative measures to explicitly ban corporal punishment in all settings

Enable public spaces, including educational and health spaces, to guarantee the rights of persons with disabilities, under the principle of non-discrimination and equality

Promote accessibility standards and accommodations to better serve persons with disabilities

Strengthen efforts to combat discrimination against persons with disabilities and allow them better access to care, education and employment

Strengthen enforcement of laws protecting persons with disabilities through awareness campaigns and by training law enforcement officials to support women with disabilities who have been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence and abuse

Review and repeal all legislative instruments, including the Mental Treatment Act, that allow for the deprivation of liberty of persons with disabilities on the basis of their psychosocial disability and put an end to such policies and practices

Consider the adoption of more comprehensive policies and programmes to support persons with disabilities, ensuring their full inclusion in society and access to all rights

Continue the efforts to protect and promote the rights of children, especially by eliminating child labour and protecting children from all forms of exploitation

Improve the protection of persons with disabilities from discrimination and exclusion and prioritize their full and equal participation at all levels of society

Continue to strengthen legislative measures by remedying protection gaps to protect children from both violence and abuse

Take necessary measures to ensure that all children under the age of 18 are protected from all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse

Expedite the adoption of draft bills concerning children and ensure that steps are taken to harmonize the legislative frameworks with the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Take effective law enforcement and judicial measures to crack down on sexual exploitation of women and girls and other human rights violations and hold perpetrators accountable and compensate victims

Ensure the full enjoyment of the right to education for all girls and promote women’s empowerment and gender equality

Strengthen the dissemination and implementation of the Family Protection and Domestic Violence Act 2014 and develop a national action plan on the prevention of violence against women and girls

Make effective use of its plural legal system to address and end violence against women and girls

Fully implement the Family Protection and Domestic Violence Act of 2014, strengthening the gender-based violence capacity of the judiciary, law enforcement officers, legislators and health-care professionals

Continue to strengthen efforts and measures to fully implement the Family Protection and Domestic Violence Act

Take effective measures to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and children, including domestic violence

Strengthen the health-care system to address family and gender-based violence, in particular for the outlying islands, and seek the necessary resources and training needed to improve it

Continue the advocacy work on the rights of victims of gender-based violence, and awareness-raising to eradicate and prevent gender-based violence, with the support of OHCHR and other key international and regional partners

Facilitate a survivor-centred awareness-raising campaign to address social norms related to gender-based and domestic violence

Increase the allocation of resources and take other concrete measures to increase the capacity of frontline service providers to respond to cases of gender-based violence and facilitate appropriate referrals using a survivor-centred approach

Enhance support services for victims of gender-based violence and take measures to raise awareness among law enforcement officials, lawyers, judges, social workers and health-care professionals of the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and children who are victims of gender-based violence

Continue efforts to empower women to ensure better representation of women in political and public positions with the objective of further integrating them into policymaking and implementation