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

Enact the anti-torture bill

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

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

Accept visit requests from the UN Special Rapporteurs and the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights

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

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

Include in the Anti-discrimination Law a specific prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

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

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

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

Take the measures necessary to amend the Penal Code in such a way that the use of a child between 16 and 18 for prostitution is prohibited

Introduce legislation, uniformly across the Confederation, that explicitly protects LGBT persons from discrimination, and take into account the issues faced by LGBT persons when creating a general act on equal treatment

Take the necessary measures for the full implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and in particular, establish an independent national preventive mechanism

Pursue measures against State organs which attempt to limit media and journalists

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

Give full and effective implementation to the national campaign to reduce violence against children and women in order to further reduce the occurrence of rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, child abuse including in educational institutions and child marriage

Continue its efforts to strengthen the institutional and normative human rights framework, particularly with regard to freedom of expression

Implement Recommendation 2010/5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in particular the issues regarding freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly

Adopt measures to fight against all forms of violence against women, in particular, criminalize domestic violence and sexual harassment

Abolish the death penalty and ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Enact a law criminalizing domestic violence and providing specific penalties for cases of domestic violence

Ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Take concrete steps to ensure that women of Turkmenistan know their rights as set forth in the Optional Protocol to CEDAW

Ratify the Rome Statue and ensure its full implementation in national legislation

Release of all prisoners of conscience