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Ensure access to justice to refugees and stateless individuals, in particular women and girls, including those belonging to ethnic minorities

Step up efforts in order for indigenous peoples, especially the Jumma and the Dalit, to fully enjoy their human rights

Strengthen policies and measures to protect indigenous peoples

Comprehensively review the legislation in order to recognize gender equality and the protection of indigenous people and ethnic minorities

Adopt legislation criminalizing all forms of violence against women and girls, including marital rape

Take further steps to fight all forms of violence and discrimination, in particular against women, children, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons

Adopt legislative and political measures to ensure that women and young people have access to sex education and free use of friendly reproductive health services, particularly in rural areas and for persons on low incomes

End impunity by conducting thorough investigations and criminal prosecutions of human rights violations and abuses against human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons

Strengthen measures to prevent, investigate, and hold security forces accountable for human rights violations and abuses, including providing an update on investigations into the alleged disappearances of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem and Amaan Azmi

Ensure that all refugee and stateless women and girls have effective access to justice without being threatened with arrest, by amending the 1946 Foreigners Act

Repeal all laws and policies that restrict the activities and rights of its citizens and civil society organizations, including the Information and Communication Technology Act of 2006 and the Foreign Donations Regulation Act of 2016

Repeal the Information and Communication Technology Act (2006), as amended in 2013, or modify the Information and Communication Technology Act to bring it in line with international law and standards

Ensure that human rights activists and journalists can exercise their rights without fear, intimidation and harassment by redrafting the planned Digital Security Act, and repealing or amending all laws that violate the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including the provisions of the Penal Code related to defamation and sedition, the Information and Communication Technology Act (in particular section 57), and the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act, in line with international human rights law

Expand its democratic space online and offline in which opposition politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and other civil society members can operate freely and without fear for their lives, and to this end revise section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act and amend the Foreign Donation Regulations Act

Revise media laws, in consultation with civil society, to decriminalize “defamation” and “hurting religious sentiment”, and limit proposed extended jail terms for these offences

Decriminalize defamation and include it in the Civil Code in accordance with international standards, and take steps to create an independent broadcast licensing authority

Continue the process of edging out the death penalty with a view to totally abolishing it

Establish a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition

/ Consider the imposition of a moratorium on the death penalty

/ Take steps towards the full abolition of the death penalty

Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, as a first step towards complete abolition of this practice

Establish a moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty

Introduce a moratorium as a first step towards final abolition of the death penalty

Reduce the number of crimes to which the death penalty applies, as a step towards eventual abolition of the death penalty

Adopt the legislation abolishing the death penalty and establish a moratorium on all pending executions

Abolition of the death penalty

Abolition of the death penalty

Abolition of the death penalty

Criminalize marital rape in all circumstances, and provide for the protection and psychological, mental and physical rehabilitation of victims

Review the special provision of the Child Marriage Restrain Act 2017 and implement legislation that effectively criminalizes all forms of gender- based violence