101.7. Take urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable groups, with particular attention to boys and
girls (Chile);
102.1. Incorporate into domestic law and enact the provisions of the international instruments,
particularly CAT, CEDAW and CRC (Poland);
102.8. Promptly undertake measures to address allegations relating to instances of involuntary
disappearances, arbitrary arrests, the routine use of torture, violence against women and girls, lack of
judicial independence, impunity granted to the members of intelligence agencies, persecution of human
rights defenders, and restriction of freedoms of expression and assembly, and carry out fundamental
reforms of its laws, policies and practices with a view to improving the current dire human rights situation
and preventing its recurrence (Republic of Korea);
102.14. Revise its Personal Status Act to ensure that women and men have equal rights (Brazil);
Not supported
104.8. Adopt and enforce laws against domestic violence, and remove mitigating factors from the
punishment of “honour-crimes” against women (Canada);
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Supported recommendations
109.3 Ratify the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention against
Torture (Guatemala);
109.4 Become party to the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (El Salvador);
109.7 Ratify and accede to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance and withdraw its reservations to articles 2 and 15 (4) of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Sierra Leone);
109.14 Amend the Penal Code and the Criminal Code to eliminate mitigated sentences for rapists who
marry their victims for so-called “honour crimes” (Sierra Leone);
109.15 Adopt national legislation criminalizing domestic violence (Sierra Leone);
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