A/RES/60/171 (d) To abolish public executions and other executions carried out in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards, in particular, as called for by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its report of January 2005, 8 executions of persons who, at the time of their offence, were under the age of 18, and to uphold the moratorium on executions by stoning and to introduce this moratorium as law as a first step towards the abolition of this punishment; (e) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, and, as proposed by the elected Iranian parliament, to accede to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; (f) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination based on religious, ethnic or linguistic grounds, and other human rights violations against persons belonging to minorities, including Arabs, Kurds, Baluchis, Christians, Jews, Sunni Muslims and the Baha’i, and to address this matter in an open manner, with the full participation of the minorities themselves, to otherwise ensure full respect for the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief of all persons, and to implement the 1996 report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on religious intolerance, 9 which recommended ways in which the Islamic Republic of Iran could emancipate the Baha’i community; 4. Encourages the thematic mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights, inter alia, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, to visit or otherwise continue their work to improve the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with these special mechanisms and to illustrate how their subsequent recommendations have been addressed, including recommendations of special procedures that have visited the country in the past twelve months; Decides to continue its examination of the situation of human rights in 5. the Islamic Republic of Iran at its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Human rights questions”, in the light of additional elements provided by the Commission on Human Rights. 64th plenary meeting 16 December 2005 _______________ 8 9 4 See CRC/C/146. See E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.2.