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Promote efforts to establish guarantees of reparation and reintegration of Colombian refugees abroad who wish to return voluntarily to the country, through the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparations and Non-repetition

Put in place legal measures to prevent the recruitment of children into the armed forces

Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home

Stipulate 18 years as the minimum age of marriage for all children

Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings

Establish an independent and impartial application and decision- making procedure for implementing the right to conscientious objection to military service

Take effective steps to address the prolonged humanitarian crisis, caused by the armed conflict affecting millions of people, especially women and children, as indicated in reports of the United Nations agencies and civil society organizations

Respect due process and the right to defence of persons deprived of their liberty, especially those who are in such a condition because of the critical political and social situation

Ensure that there is no impunity and those responsible for political crimes are punished, including those for “false positives”, for more than 5,000 mass graves found and more than 9,000 of victims of paramilitary activity

Redouble efforts to decrease overcrowding in prisons of 47.8 per cent and address the precarious health-care situation in those institutions

Adopt in its legislation a definition of racial discrimination in line with article 1 (1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Introduce a comprehensive definition of racial discrimination in its legislation, in accordance with article 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Implement two recommendations which Colombia accepted linked to special procedures to invite the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

Accept the request from the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, to undertake an official mission to the country shortly

Accede to and fully implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

Ratify other international human rights treaties to which it is not yet a party

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Consider becoming a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities