A/HRC/48/8 35.2 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, signed in 2005 (Italy); 35.3 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as soon as possible (Switzerland); 35.4 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, without further delays and without any reservations (Cyprus) (Czechia); 35.5 Finalize the process of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (Georgia); 35.6 Expedite the process of ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Malawi); 35.7 Continue its efforts to promptly accede to the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Ghana); 35.8 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish an effective national preventive mechanism (Lithuania); 35.9 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism to ensure the monitoring of all places where people are deprived of their liberty (Netherlands); 35.10 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a preventive mechanism in accordance with the Optional Protocol (Norway); 35.11 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal 16 and establish a national mechanism for the prevention of torture that reflects the realities of the country (Paraguay); 35.12 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and take forward consultations to establish a national preventive mechanism (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 35.13 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and establish a national preventive mechanism with sufficient resources to ensure independent, impartial and external monitoring, in line with the principles of the Convention (Costa Rica); 35.14 Finalize the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Romania); Finalize the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and set up an effective national preventive mechanism (Ukraine); 35.15 Accelerate efforts for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism (North Macedonia); 35.16 Continue efforts towards the establishment of an effective national preventive mechanism for the prevention of torture, in accordance with the standards set forth in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Chile); 35.17 Establish a national preventive mechanism to prevent torture with a view to ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Albania); 6 GE.21-09330