Universal Periodic Review: The Status of Children's Rights - CRIN

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) 9 Appendices
military service nor compulsory civil service in the country. Recruitment into the military corps, which is on a strictly voluntary
basis, is reserved for citizens older than 18 years of age;
Iran
92. R - 12. Repeal or amend all discriminatory provisions against women and girls in national legislation (Israel);
R - 14. Ensure that all minorities, and particularly the Baha'i community, can exercise all of their rights free from discrimination and
persecution, in conformity with the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and
the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (Mexico);
R - 20. Abolish the death penalty (Luxembourg)/immediately stop executions and abolish the death penalty (Germany)/amend the
relevant legislation to abolish capital punishment entirely, in keeping with General Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168, as well
as the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, and transfer the existing death sentences to imprisonment terms (Slovakia)/consider a
moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing it (Brazil)/ introduce a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its
abolition (Italy)/extend the moratorium on the death penalty and abolish the death penalty, especially for juveniles, in keeping with
its international commitments (Estonia)/introduce a moratorium on executions as soon as possible (Belgium)/put an end to executions
and adopt a moratorium on the death penalty (France)/commute all death sentences, in particular executions of political prisoners,
and abolish, in practice, public executions by hanging and stoning (Israel);
R - 21. Immediately halt the execution of juveniles and political prisoners and, furthermore, establish an official moratorium
(Canada)/comply with its obligations under article 37 of CRC and article 6 of ICCPR and prohibit executions of persons who, at the
time of their offences, were under the age of 18 (Israel)/cease immediately the use of the death penalty, especially for minors and
those who committed offences while they were juveniles (New Zealand)/favourably consider alternative sentences for juvenile
offenders, and immediately halt executions of all juvenile offenders on death row (Slovenia);
R - 22. Consider the elimination of cruel punishment, including juvenile execution and stoning (Japan);
R - 39. Provide for urgent instructions to all schools to respect freedom of religion or belief and to take specific measures to
reprimand any teacher or school administrator who intimidates or discriminates against Baha'i children (Slovenia);
Iraq
83 R - 27. Ensure that Iraq's national legislation guarantees the rights of boys, girls and adolescents and establishes 18 as the age of
adulthood, especially regarding penal responsibility (Mexico).
Slovenia
R - 58. To establish specialized tribunals with a view to accelerating trials related to family cases, in which the best interests of
children should prevail,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
90. R - 6. To implement the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography, and to incorporate it into the criminal justice system (Qatar);
R - 23. To intensify its efforts to progressively implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in
collaboration with the relevant United Nations agencies (Morocco);
R - 38. To take further activities to improve the situation of women and to secure children's rights (Slovenia);
R - 39. To continue the implementation of comprehensive strategies aimed at the protection of children's rights (Belarus);
R - 41. To intensify efforts to implement the country's international commitments, as well as the corresponding national strategies and
plans of action regarding children's rights (Slovakia);
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