A/HRC/48/5 122.221 Take further action to ensure gender equality and women’s rights, including access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as girls’ right to education, with a view to preventing child marriages and premature pregnancies and promoting girls’ and women’s freedom of choice and autonomy (Norway); 122.222 Develop and adopt a family code in accordance with international human rights standards in order to raise the minimum age for marriage to 18 years, recognize the equal rights of women in inheritance and divorce matters, as well as the equal legal status and protection of children born out of wedlock (Panama); 122.223 Take steps to strengthen data collection on gender-based violence against women and girls to ensure informed and responsive policy interventions (Philippines); 122.224 Ensure universal access to quality and inclusive education and health, including in rural areas, and combat all forms of discrimination in the access to those rights, in particular against women and girls (Portugal); 122.225 Repeal all discriminatory legislation against women and girls, including that related to early and forced marriage (Sierra Leone); 122.226 Consider prioritizing the National Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy and its five-year action plan for the period 2017 to 2021 (South Africa); 122.227 Implement the amendment of 2019 to the law establishing the quota system to increase the rate of female representation from 15 per cent to 25 per cent for elected positions and from 25 per cent to 30 per cent for appointed positions (South Sudan); 122.228 Continue stepping up efforts to promote women’s and children’s rights through the effective implementation of the new policies (Azerbaijan); 122.229 Continue to take measures to increase the representation of women in the National Human Rights Commission (Timor-Leste); 122.230 Continue awareness-raising campaigns and open and inclusive public debates with the participation of all relevant stakeholders on the importance of a comprehensive and coherent legal reform to achieve effective equality between men and women (Togo); 122.231 Continue efforts to prevent gender-based violence, empower women, promote gender equality, and address early and child marriages (Tunisia); 122.232 Raise the legal minimum age of marriage to 18 for girls and boys, as well as prohibit, including under customary law, harmful practices associated with child marriage (Belgium); 122.233 Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns and education on the importance of gender equality from a human rights approach, including in its parliament, with a view to making possible the withdrawal of national reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as soon as possible (Uruguay); 122.234 Redouble efforts to increase the representation of women in decisionmaking positions, particularly in legislative, executive and judicial institutions (Senegal); 122.235 Accelerate ongoing awareness campaigns to eliminate child, forced and early marriages (Zimbabwe); 122.236 Pass a law that strictly prohibits child marriage and increase the age of marriage to 18 for girls (Côte d’Ivoire); 122.237 22 Ensure the protection of children’s rights in practice (Estonia); GE.21-09329