A/RES/69/190 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (c) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; (d) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls, including to address the increasing incidence of child, early and forced marriage, to promote women’s participation in decision-making positions and, while recognizing the high enrolment of women in all levels of education, to lift all restrictions on women’s equal access to all aspects of university education and promote women’s participation in the labour market and in all aspects of economic, cultural, social and political life; (e) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, recognized or otherwise; (f) To eliminate discrimination against, and exclusion of, members of certain groups with respect to access to higher education based on their political, ethnic or religious affiliations or community, including through the unqualified readmission of those students previously excluded for these reasons, to eliminate the criminalization of efforts to provide higher education to Baha’i youth denied access to Iranian universities and to release those imprisoned for this reason; (g) To implement, inter alia, the 1996 report of the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance, 7 in which he recommended ways in which the Islamic Republic of Iran could emancipate the Baha’i community, to release the seven Baha’i leaders held since 2008 and to accord all Baha’is, including those imprisoned because of their beliefs, the due process of law and the rights that they are constitutionally guaranteed; (h) To launch a comprehensive accountability process in response to cases of serious human rights violations, including those involving the Iranian judiciary and security agencies, and to end impunity for such violations, including those that took place during the attack that injured dozens of prisoners in Evin prison in April 2014, as promised by the Government; (i) To fulfil repeated pledges by the President for greater space for freedom of expression and opinion by ending the ongoing harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students, academics, film-makers, journalists and their families, other media representatives, bloggers, social media users, clerics, artists and lawyers, including by releasing persons who continue to be detained arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views; (j) To end restrictions on, and the arbitrary arrest of, the press and media representatives, Internet users and Internet providers, including the selective jamming of satellite broadcasts, that violate the rights to freedom of expression and association, and, while the General Assembly welcomes the decision of the Government to increase Internet speed, it further encourages improvements to facilitate open and free Internet access; (k) To uphold, in law and in practice, procedural guarantees to ensure due process of law; 7. Also calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to strengthen its national human rights institutions in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of _______________ 7 4/6 E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.2.