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Enact the anti-torture bill

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

Enact the Marriage and Divorce Bill

Implement the "Social missions" on a long-term basis and in a more systematic manner, in order to further reduce the level of inequality in the country

Strengthen the state of laws, grass-root democracy and social equitability

Continue ensuring systematic human rights awareness-raising and training for all personnel working in the legal and justice system, including police, public defenders, lawyers and judges

Consolidate all people centred programmes to fight forces of negation

Continue to deep the existing policy on democratization of access to higher-education and implement measures envisaged to strengthening the autonomy of universities, through the active participation of the university community's member

Continue the efforts to promote the State's activities in the field of cultural rights, and ensuring wider participation of all sectors of Venezuelan society

Continue its efforts to fight unequal access to education

Continue its fight against poverty

Improve the prison system and speed up the penal processes so that each person may know judicial resolutions in appropriate times

Continue to facilitate and strengthen the work of NGOs and other civil society actors, as well as guarantee their social media

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

Strengthen its efforts to eliminate wage gap between men and women in the labour market

Continue to implement policies and programmes aimed at reducing poverty, in particular extreme poverty

Continue its efforts to eradicate poverty and extreme poverty particularly in rural areas

Continue to increase input in health sector and provide health services to its poor population

Continue action to reduce maternal and infant mortality

Ensure the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act

Take necessary actions to define the legal status for an independent child rights monitoring body and increase its efforts for human rights training relevant to child abuse and domestic violence cases

Take continuous measures for the protection of the rights of women and other marginalized groups

Step up efforts to adopt a comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Bill in line with the relevant international human rights instruments

Accede to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption

Further strengthen measures against torture and ill-treatment

Formulate a comprehensive national strategy for the protection of the rights of children, with a view to ensuring compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, following the review of national laws

Ensure the protection of IDP's rights to voluntary and safe return to adequate restitution by, inter alia, putting in place and implementing long-term housing and property restitution policies that comply with international standards

Develop a comprehensive policy with regard to all aspects of internal displacement

Reduce the inequalities in the labour market by adopting and implementing an effective strategy, with special attention to women

Promote inter-ethnic dialogue and tolerance, particularly at the cantonal and communal levels