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Establish a moratorium on all executions and eventually abolish the death penalty

Enact the anti-torture bill

Positively consider issuing a standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council

Consider abolishing the death penalty

Passing of the Anti-Torture Bill and efforts to hold accountable all those committing acts of torture and ensure timely and adequate compensations to victims

The Parliament to dismiss the proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009

Ensure equal rights for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation

Enact the Marriage and Divorce Bill

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT)

Adopt all necessary measures to comprehensively implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

In assistance with its Development Partners, continue its fight against poverty

Accelerate its efforts with a view to creating an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles

Review the inconsistencies between the Children's Act of 2009 and international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, such as the prohibition of corporal punishment of children in all settings

Apply strict measures to stamp out corporal punishment in school and home settings

Establish national legislation to implement the provisions of the Convention on Refugees

Advocate for the revision of labour code provisions to ensure the full application of the principle of "equal pay for equal work" for both men and women

Continue to work towards the creation of an enabling environment for women and children and girls and addressing the problem of social exclusion that could hinder the full realization of women's rights

Continue policies aimed at reducing inequalities in access to the full enjoyment of human rights by all the social groups with special attention paid to women, children and persons with disabilities

Continue strengthening services for children with disabilities and adopt policies for their inclusion in regular education

Strengthen efforts to ensure the functionality of monitoring and reporting mechanism of violations of the rights of the child in the entire country, especially in rural areas

Intensify the implementation of its laws, policies and programmes aimed at combating violence against women

Extend a standing invitation to the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations

Proceed to the ratification the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Introduce special measures in areas where women are under-represented or disadvantaged and raise awareness among parliamentarians and other government organs

Continue to strengthen the National Human Rights Commission to make it fully compliant with the Paris principles

Provide adequate budget to existing human rights promotion programs and strengthen their practical application

Step up its efforts to align its domestic legal framework with international and regional human rights conventions to which it is a party

Submit its human rights reports regularly and within a reasonable time frame, to respective Treaty Bodies and in particular the outstanding report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture

Carry out the legislative reform to ensure de jure and de facto equality between men and women and adopt a comprehensive law repressing all forms of violence against women

Extend a standing invitation to all thematic special procedures