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Eliminate harmful practices against women and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sex education for all women and girls

Ensure full enjoyment of the rights to freedom of assembly and association and freedom of expression and that all measures are in conformity with international standards

Step up efforts to ensure better implementation of legislative measures to combat impunity and provide victims of violence against women and girls with immediate access to means of redress and protection

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

Harmonize the national legislation that covers torture and incommunicado detention with international standards

Continue its efforts towards the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission and the development of the Human Rights Action Plan

Extend an open invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Uruguay); 1 142.24 Continue reform measures with a view to promoting political democracy in Kenya

Revise and enact the draft data protection bill and create a data protection framework in line with international standards on the right to privacy

Step up efforts against discrimination, with special emphasis on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and women, and eradicate female genital mutilation

Provide the national preventive mechanism with sufficient financial resources, necessary for the full implementation of its mandate

Proceed with the steps to establish a national mechanism on reporting and follow-up on the implementation of recommendations from the treaty monitoring bodies

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Continue efforts to domestic violence through implementation of its Framework Act on Gender Equality

Decriminalize sexual relations between consulting adults of the same sex, as recommended previously

Continue efforts aimed at fighting corruption as well as illicit financial flows and tax avoidance

Take effective measures to put an end to identity checks based on ethnic and racial profiling

Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Continue taking steps to abolish the death penalty

Continue the steps necessary for the abolition of the death penalty

Cooperate fully with international human rights monitoring mechanisms, including United Nations Special Rapporteurs, and ensure their unrestricted access throughout the Russian Federation and to the illegally annexed Crimea in order to fulfil its obligation as an occupying force to guarantee the protection of human rights

Expand its democratic space online and offline in which opposition politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and other civil society members can operate freely and without fear for their lives, and to this end revise section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act and amend the Foreign Donation Regulations Act

Adopt the legislation abolishing the death penalty and establish a moratorium on all pending executions

Continue to improve national legislation and to strengthen corresponding institutions, ensuring the rights of women and children

Introduce a definition of discrimination into the Criminal Code in line with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Ensure access to the occupied Crimea by international human rights mechanisms

Restore full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms at home

Consider becoming a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, of 1951

Repeal or revise legislation in order to bring it into conformity with the obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to ensure protection of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, association and assembly

Decriminalize defamation and include it in the Civil Code in accordance with international standards, and take steps to create an independent broadcast licensing authority

Take effective measures to ensure freedom of expression and end all assaults on journalists and human rights defenders, as well as ensure that the proposed Digital Security Act is in line with international standards