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Eliminate harmful practices against women and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sex education for all women and girls

Adopt and implement curricula on age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, including information about issues of violence, that is provided throughout schooling

Immediately implement the High Court judgement in Petition No. 266 of 2015 by reinstating the standards and guidelines on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity related to unsafe abortion and the training curriculum for medical professionals in public hospitals

Take concrete actions to ensure access to health services and information, and to review relevant laws and policies in order to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

Provide sufficient annual financial assistance to the country’s civil society programmes and organizations that are trying to change attitudes towards positive masculinity for men and boys

Fully abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Giving continuity to recent progress in this field, abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Formally abolish the death penalty for all crimes

Abolish the death penalty completely, in law and in practice

Abolish the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty

Establish a formal moratorium on the death penalty and commute all existing death sentences with a view to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Fully abolish the death penalty

Repeal sections 162, 165 and 181 of the Penal Code, which criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex status, conduct and/or expression

Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex

Decriminalize sexual relations between consulting adults of the same sex, as recommended previously

Decriminalize consensual same-sex relationships between adults, and enact comprehensive anti-discrimination laws to safeguard the realization of human rights for all individuals, irrespective of sexual orientation or gender identity

Repeal legislation that criminalizes consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex, in particular sections 162 and 165 of the Penal Code

Repeal sections 162, 163 and 165 of the Penal Code and decriminalize same-sex conduct between adults

Adopt laws, policies and measures to prevent violence and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression

Decriminalize consensual same-sex conduct and adopt measures to tackle discrimination based on sexual orientation

Combat discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and repeal provisions penalizing homosexuality

Repeal laws that criminalize homosexuality, and combat violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Take the necessary political and legislative measures to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Step up efforts against discrimination, with special emphasis on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and women, and eradicate female genital mutilation

Repeal all provisions which criminalize consensual same-sex relations, and adopt appropriate policies and measures to tackle stigmatization, harassment, discrimination and violence against individuals because of their sexual orientation