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120. Senegal welcomed the progress made by the Niger in terms of ratification of
international legal instruments, reform of the judicial and penitentiary systems and the
enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to health, education, food and security.
121. In conclusion, the delegation of the Niger stressed that all the recommendations
received would be implemented through the relevant national mechanisms. It reaffirmed the
intention of the Government to respect its international commitments in the field of human
rights and urged all stakeholders to strengthen international cooperation to support the Niger
in implementing the recommendations.
II. Conclusions and/or recommendations
122. The following recommendations will be examined by the Niger, which will
provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-eighth session of the Human
Rights Council:
122.1
Ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide (Armenia);
122.2
Ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (Estonia);
122.3
Ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute to bring alleged
perpetrators of violations to justice and allow compensation for victims
(Malawi);
122.4
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Belgium)
(France) (Rwanda) (Timor-Leste);
122.5
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Ukraine);
122.6
Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death
penalty (Argentina) (Nepal);
122.7
Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Latvia);
122.8
Continue taking steps to accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of
the death penalty (Namibia);
122.9
Continue its efforts aimed at the country’s accession to the Second
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Azerbaijan);
122.10
Accelerate accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and revise the Penal Code
to abolish the death penalty (Croatia);
122.11
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and take all necessary measures to abolish the death
penalty (Iceland);
122.12
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
on the Rights of Women in Africa (Togo);
122.13
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and
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