10. Notes that insufficient attention is still being paid to violations of sexual and reproductive rights, and that this undermines the efforts made to act on the commitments under the Cairo Programme of Action (ICPD) and to address discrimination, including gender discrimination and inequality, in population and development strategies; stresses that progress on reproductive health has been limited in some contexts by abuses such as child marriage and early and forced marriage and failure to enforce a legal ...[+++] minimum age of marriage, by coercive practices such as forced sterilisation or FGM, and by the denial to women and girls of the autonomy that would enable them to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive health free of discrimination, coercion or violence;

A new provision should be enacted that entitles a prisoner in such circumstances to apply to the court for reduction of a fixed-term sentence, or if the sentence has a mandatory minimum, a declaration that the sentence was illegally or unfairly administered.

22. Calls on Saudi Arabia, as a newly elected member of the UNHRC, to heed the recommendations of the 17th Universal Periodic Review Working Group session to put an end to all forms of discrimination against women in legislation and in practice and to allow women to participate fully and equally in society; to take all necessary measures to combat domestic violence and ensure victims have access to mechanisms of protection and redress; to enact a law prohibiting all early and forced child marriages, and establish the minimum legal age ...[+++] of marriage at 18 years; to adopt laws to protect the freedoms of association, expression, peaceful assembly and religion; to impose a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its eventual abolition; to allow for the registration of NGOs active in the area of human rights; and to ratify key human rights instruments;

(2) considers as an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of penalties crimes against members of a trade union organization or human rights ombudsperson; (3) provides that any person who prevents or disturbs a lawful assembly or the exercise of rights granted by labour laws or engages in reprisals on grounds of strike action, assembly or legitimate association, shall be liable to a fine of between 100 and 300 minimum monthly wages as established by law; and (4) provides that, in the event of threats or intimidation against a member of a trade unio ...[+++]n organization, the penalty shall be increased by one third.

Experience shows us that minimum sentences are treated as maximum thresholds in sentencing rather than being seen as minimal thresholds, and this type of sentence creates substantial costs for provincial and territorial correctional services and for Correctional Services Canada.

If we want to prevent this type of disaster happening in the future, at the very least, we must introduce restrictive legislation to make not only mining companies but also all the owners and all their shareholders responsible for the damage caused. If they do not comply, all their assets and their capital will be confiscated, including those invested in other sectors.