Annex: List of recommendations relating to gender equality in previous UPR cycles UPR 1st cycle Supported recommendations 100.2. Bring national laws fully into line with its obligations under ICCPR, CEDAW, CAT and CRC (Maldives); 100.3. Maintain the positive momentum in improving legislation and institutions, and ensure the execution of its laws in practice, in particular in the areas of education, women rights, childhood, persons with disabilities and victims of trafficking in persons (Venezuela); 100.35. Strengthen efforts to further promote empowerment of women (Bangladesh); 100.36. Consider strengthening all measures aimed at promoting gender equity and the full and effective participation of women in the political, social, economic and cultural spheres of life, including through legislative and administrative means (South Africa); 100.37. Immediately adopt and implement necessary legislative and administrative measures to promote a greater inclusion of women in the country’s public and political life, ensuring that they effectively participate in the decision-making process, and lift the reservations made to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Mexico); 100.38. Step up efforts to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, in particular women and children (Belarus); 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); 17