provide adequate financial and material resources to Legal Aid South Africa to enable it provide adequate assistance to all the persons in need of its services; and 11. strengthen legislative and other measures aimed at combating discrimination and homophobia. Women and Children's Rights 49. The Commission recommends that South Africa should: i. speed up the enactment of the Hate Crimes Bill to criminalise corrective rape; n. enforce laws that outlaw the practice of Ukuthwala; iii. harmonise its laws to provide for the age of marriage to be 18 years IV. without any exception in line with the Maputo Protocol and review laws criminalizing child marriage for a better and adequate protection; develop laws and policies to increase women's representation in decision making levels and in the Judiciary; enacta legislation domesticating the Maputo Protocol; v. vi. develop programmes aimed at curbing pregnancy amongst girls of school going age; and vii. build operational and institutional mechanisms to combat the high rate of unemployment amongst women aged 15 to 24 years. HIV/AIDS 50. The Commission recommends that South Africa should: i. strengthen its policies and programmes to curb the high prevalence rate of HIV and AIDS pandemic; u. enhance the management and treatment of HIV and the drug resistant forms of TB to reduce the co-infection rates of HIV and TB; and in. strengthen its strategies to eradicate stigma and discrimination that continue to present challenges in the management of HIV and AIDS, particularly in communities. Right to Freedom of Expression 25 age