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Ensure that the development and implementation of its climate change adaptation and mitigation policies are gender responsive and disability- inclusive, consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015– 2030

Ensure the full enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly

Ensure respect of the right of freedom of expression, in line with international and European standards

Ensure that the implementation of articles 36.6 and 37.4 of the public security act, as well as the implementation of Royal Decree-Law 14/2019 do not counteract the right to civil protest

Take further measures to ensure that the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are fully respected, and effectively investigate all allegations of excessive use of force committed by the security forces

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

Launch awareness-raising and media campaigns aimed at effectively fighting negative stereotypes about the gypsy population, persons of African descent, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers

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

Abolish the incommunicado detention regime and prohibit solitary confinement of more than 15 days

Adopt anti-hate legislation

Enact appropriate national legislation to ensure that Spanish individuals and corporations do not unlawfully participate in the taking of Western Sahara’s resources

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

Modify the content of article 174 of the Criminal Code in order to eliminate the distinction between serious and non-serious torture and harmonize it with international standards

Bring the definition of torture and enforced disappearance fully into line with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, ensure effective remedies for torture and ill-treatment and strengthen its framework to prosecute such crimes

Incorporate into legislation measures to ban racial profiling in security policies, including the elimination of identity checks based on ethnic and racial profiling

Refrain from engaging in any economic activities relating to the territory of Western Sahara that does not have the free, prior and informed consent of the people of Western Sahara

Take all necessary measures to guarantee the right of peaceful assembly in line with its obligations under article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Ensure independent and effective investigations into cases of disproportionate actions of police officers against participants of public demonstrations

Guarantee freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and ensure that in the context of public protests or demonstrations, government actions are carried out with full respect for the international obligations of the State

Adopt a general law on non-discrimination, including combating racism