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(madagascar); Issue a standing invitation to all united nations
Special Rapporteurs and working groups (Austria); Consider
issuing a standing invitation to special procedures for a visit to the
country (Slovenia); Engage further with the human Rights Council
and its mechanisms and consider positively the pending requests
for visits by mandate holder and extend an open invitation to all
special procedures of the hRC (Portugal); Step up cooperation
with special procedures mandate holders by responding positively
to the pending visit requests and eventually consider extending
a standing invitation to all special procedures mandate holders
of the human Rights Council (Latvia);
131.15. Engage in closer contact with united nations bodies
and, inter alia, accept the request by the Special Rapporteur on
human rights defenders to visit the country (norway); Accept the
request of the working group on Enforced Disappearances to visit
the country (mexico); Invite the un working group on Enforced
or Involuntary Disappearances and the Special Rapporteur on
human rights defenders to visit the Philippines (united Kingdom
of great Britain and northern Ireland);
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131.18. Effectively implement the 2009 Anti-Torture Act, with
a particular focus on ensuring that all alleged victims of torture
and ill-treatment have effective access to a medical evaluation of
their injuries by institutionalising the use of the Istanbul Protocol,
including by providing guidelines to judges, prosecutes, forensic
doctors and medical personnel dealing with detained persons, to
detect and document physical and psychological trauma of torture
(Denmark);
131.19. Communicate on a regular basis to the Commission on
human Rights of the Philippines a list of all detainees indicating
their place of detention (germany);
131.20. Embark on substantial reform of its judicial system
in order to achieve progressive development for human rights
(norway);
131.21. Ensure, in the context of the judicial reform, a gender
sensitive and accessible judiciary, both in terms of procedures
and attitude (Austria);
131.22. Strengthen its legal framework, institutions and
instruments aimed at guaranteeing that those responsible for
crimes of extrajudicial executions are subjected to fair procedure
and, if convicted, punished (Switzerland);
131.23. Update the Human Rights Council on the findings of
the national monitoring mechanism and the measures taken to
address the issue of extrajudicial killings, including the results
of the relevant court procedures (hungary);
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