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Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and implement policies to halt this practice

Promote human rights training for law enforcement officers, judges and lawyers and facilitate access to justice for victims of abuses

Promote legal reforms ensuring equal rights for women and men regarding marriage, divorce, inheritance and transmission of nationality to their children

Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Review the policy about offshore processing of asylum claims, as previously recommended

Ensure that asylum seekers have access to a refugee status determination procedure in line with international law

Take steps to recognize indigenous people’s legal status in the Constitution

Prevent violence and discrimination against women and enhance the participation of women in public life, including in electoral processes

Consider signing and ratifying the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, of 1980

Prevent killings, mutilations, kidnapping and other attacks against persons with albinism, particularly women and children, ensuring prompt and thorough investigation of all offences and providing all necessary assistance to the victims

Redouble efforts to implement legal provisions prohibiting harmful practices (such as child or forced marriage, female genital mutilation, “widow cleansing” and ceremonies that lead to abuse), ensuring prompt and thorough investigation of all offences and providing all necessary assistance to the victims

Ensure that poverty and disability are not used as justifications for removing children from parental care

Adopt a comprehensive law criminalizing all forms of violence against women, particularly domestic and sexual violence

Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Take steps, including by revising existing laws and regulations, to ensure the independence and impartiality of the justice system

Adopt and implement legislation criminalizing human rights violations arising from harmful traditional practices, such as genital mutilation, child or forced marriage, accusations of witchcraft and trial by ordeal

Remove any legal provisions for the death penalty, commuting all existing death sentences and refraining from carrying out any additional executions

Redouble efforts to combat discrimination against women and against migrant workers belonging to religious minorities, in particular Christians, including through legislative reforms and awareness-raising campaigns

Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and strengthen its cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to address the situation of migrants in detention

Take steps to ensure that competent authorities at the state level refrain from enacting new laws which unduly restrict the right to freedom of peaceful assembly

Establish an integrated system for statistics on violence against women

Ensure the investigation of and guarantee accountability for attacks, reprisals and violence against journalists and human rights defenders

Take concrete steps to promote and protect the human rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers

Strengthen efforts to apply, in law and practice, full respect for freedom of opinion and expression

Update legislation, in line with international law, aiming at ensuring equal protection and access to justice to all women victims of sexual violence

Take measures to ensure adequate treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS and to protect people from discrimination based on health status

Step up efforts to prevent and combat violence against women, including through the creation of an integrated system for the collection of statistics on this issue

Ensure investigation into and accountability for attacks, acts of reprisal and violence against journalists and human rights defenders

Take concrete steps to protect the human rights of migrants and persons seeking international protection in the country, including by promoting a culture of tolerance and the prevention of unlawful deportations

Consider special protection of core human rights and fundamental freedoms in the national legal framework, taking into account the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights treaties the country is a party to