A/HRC/48/8 35.213 Continue efforts to develop procedures for responding to immigrants who are minors and unaccompanied children, in order to achieve their best interests (Tunisia); 35.214 Strengthen efforts to protect the rights of migrant children, in line with recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Ireland); 35.215 Guarantee the protection of the human rights of migrant children, respecting their integrity and dignity (Nicaragua); 35.216 Adopt measures to ensure that an individual assessment is carried out for each case of asylum, deportation or expulsion, with full respect for the principle of non-refoulement (Afghanistan); 35.217 Take concrete action for the international legal protection of the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers (El Salvador); 35.218 Continue to strengthen and improve the processes for accommodating asylum seekers with an independent and thorough examination of their asylum applications and an effective appeal process (Fiji). 36. The following recommendations will be examined by Belgium, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council: 36.1 Ratify the core human rights treaties, including the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (Kazakhstan); 36.2 Become a party to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Azerbaijan); 36.3 Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and establish a national preventive mechanism as a matter of priority (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 36.4 Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Argentina); 36.5 Ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Switzerland); 36.6 Ensure that the Federal Institute for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights is allocated all competencies in line with the Paris Principles (Germany); 36.7 Reform the federal human rights institution so that it is fully compliant with the Paris Principles and all human rights issues are within its mandate, including regional competencies and cross-cutting issues (Lithuania); 36.8 Establish a national mechanism for accountability and reparations regarding the grave violations committed by Belgium in the colonial era (Syrian Arab Republic); 36.9 Strengthen protection against hate crimes by eliminating distinctions between types of hate speech online, standardizing the legal interpretation of hate as an aggravating factor for crime and strengthening the collection of disaggregated data on hate offences (Australia); 36.10 Devote additional resources to prosecuting hate crimes and countering discrimination against vulnerable groups, in particular Muslims, LGBTQI+ GE.21-09330 17